Monthly Archives: August 2013

[Wordpress is playing up so some images may be missing] I am a strong believer in Crowdcrafting (volunteer “crowdsourcing” ay http://crowdcrafting.org): CrowdCrafting is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform powered by the PyBossa software. This platform enables people to … Continue reading →

On Tuesday I went to an OKFN data evening in London (5 min from Kings Cross, so easy). They are occasions to meet new people and new ideas. On Tuesday we heard from David Carroll and Joseph McArthur medical/pharmacology undergraduates … Continue reading →

[Readable by non-chemists]. Chembark is a well-known and highly respected chemical blogger. He and others keep the community on its toes in many ways, but often in revealing sloppy or even fraudulent practices. His latest post reveals unacceptable practice in … Continue reading →

Springer (commendably) publishes most of its APC-paid Open Access under CC-BY licences and allows free re-use for any purpose. However some “Open Access” (e.g. Drugs in R&D) is licensed under CC-BY-NC (non-commercial). This excludes, for example, re-use as teaching materials. … Continue reading →

I must apologize to the Royal Society of Chemistry for material in the blog last week (/pmr/2013/07/31/does-the-royal-society-of-chemistry-deliver-on-its-commitments-on-open-access/ ). I failed to give the complete picture by implying that the RSC did not offer CC-BY as a paid option for Open … Continue reading →

esare Bellini from EDINA and I are doing a developer challenge, adapting my hack4ac prototype to annotate images with licence information. See /pmr/2013/07/24/making-images-open-can-and-should-be-routine/ for the idea. What we are going to do is: Point to a URL of an image … Continue reading →

I’m going through publishers in a semi-systematic way looking to see whether paid Open Access (Author Publishing Charges, APC) gives readers and authors the results they deserve. Look at the preceeding posts for RSC and Elsevier where readers are forbidden … Continue reading →

In the last two posts I have shown examples of how legacy publishers charge additional money for the re-use of CC-NC (“non-commercial”) articles. I have taken examples of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Elsevier, but this is applicable to … Continue reading →