Monthly Archives: November 2012

There has been considerable debate about the charges of ACS journals and SUNY has made headlines in “Walking away from the American Chemical Society” http://www.attemptingelegance.com/?p=1765 where they intend to cancel subscriptions to the ACS and use Royal Society Of Chemistry … Continue reading →

AMI and Friends (Murray Jensen, PMR) have made good progress with the first part of their 3-part Quest. PDF2SVG is now at continual-beta. The framework is in place, moderately exercised and “tested”. (It’s actually quite difficult to build tests for … Continue reading →

I have been trying to find “Open Access” articles published in Royal Society of Chemistry journals. It’s very difficult – Google doesn’t help – and I’ve scanned about 200 abstracts without finding one. Then I happened on http://blogs.rsc.org/cc/2012/10/08/chemcomm-celebrates-its-first-gold-for-gold-communication/ (I’ll reproduce … Continue reading →

I’ve been to central Melbourne (Central Business District, CBD) for the last two days. To hack. But the first visit was to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria_Market to find AMI. (AMI2 is the scientifically intelligent program amanuensis we are building and AMI will give … Continue reading →

AMI2 is our new intelligent amanuensis for reading and understanding the Scientific Technical Medical literature. AMI is OURS – not mine – she is completely Open and you can take part. YOU DON’T HAVE TO KNOW COMPUTING TO HELP. AMI’s … Continue reading →