Monthly Archives: July 2013

The legacy publishers are not shy of promoting “their” latest articles under the #openaccess twitter tag. Here’s todays from Elsevier. You might think that when an author had paid APCs to publish an article as “Open Access” you’d be allowed … Continue reading →

Nearly a year ago I blogged that the Royal Society of Chemistry was charging ca 100 USD per student for re-use of a 2-page “Open Access” article (/pmr/2012/11/06/royal-society-of-chemistry-will-charge-students-for-re-using-gold-open-access-articles ). The RSC has responded (very slowly) and in June replied to … Continue reading →

Today is the first (half) day of Repository Fringe in Edinburgh and we are having Workshops. Chris Gutteridge from Southampton is running one on Consuming Linked Open Data: RDF & Linked Open Data are terms becoming more common in the … Continue reading →

Ross Mounce @rmounce and Joseph W Brown have been tweeting about the lack of data to support published phylogenetic studies. (Readers of this blog will know that Ross and I start work in October to extract trees from published PDFs … Continue reading →

We are going to the Repository Fringe this week and are going to present a PechaKucha. What’s that? It’s 20 slides of 20 seconds each that change automatically. So 400 seconds in all. And the first one has to introduce … Continue reading →

We are currently processing the applications for our Panton Fellowships (sponsored by CCIA – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_%26_Communications_Industry_Association to whom many thanks). On Thursday Michelle Brook and I worked on this in C4CC – the OKFN’s London hangout:   Firstly many thanks to … Continue reading →

I/we had a great evening on Wednesday at the Open Science meeting run by Jenny Molloy and colleagues /pmr/2013/07/24/hack4ac-content-mining-and-open-science-in-oxford/ . I was leading the meeting on “content mining” and we had about 12 attendees including bioscientists, librarians, physicist, informatics, etc. … Continue reading →

One of the many serious problems in re-use of scientific data is that it often occurs in diagrams. Here’s a simple example taken from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/11/174/ (BMC is an Open Access, CC-BY publisher so there’s no problem with anything in this … Continue reading →

Jenny Molloy has invited me to introduce a session in Oxford this evening (Monthly meetings held at Oxford e-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road, 19:00-20:30 – See more at: http://science.okfn.org/community/local-groups/oxford-open-science/#sthash.h1XPy1Pm.dpuf and http://science.okfn.org/community/local-groups/oxford-open-science/ ) on Content Mining. It will be very informal … Continue reading →

I was alerted today by a Wikipedia initiative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness ) by Daniel Mietchen (the primary editor of this page, but all WP pages belong to the world). I think it could have enormous impact in and for #openaccess. I shall … Continue reading →