Monthly Archives: October 2013

In the last post I highlighted success of the Open Access initative and culture over the 10 years since BOAI. This post highlights a fundamental problem of scholarly publishing and the “market”. Please criticize me – lack of criticism is … Continue reading →

My previous post outlined some of the differences between #openaccess and other Open initiatives and was, by implication, somewhat critical. In this post I’ll list some of the things that are successes or going well for #openaccess. In the next … Continue reading →

[This is probably the first of several posts] This is OpenAccess Week #oaweek #oaw13 and I generally try to post something to give a perspective. It’s 10 years since the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) which I thought was a … Continue reading →

I hadn’t meant to post on the Bohannon/Sciencemag/AAAS  “sting”  (where journals were spoofed into accepting junk papers). Many others have done this (summarised by Graham Steel inter alia ). But then I learnt today there was to be a live … Continue reading →

Royal Society of Chemistry announces a new repository for the chemical sciences. I have been asked to comment (by an American Chemical Society organ) and will outline my thoughts below. This is important both for chemistry and more widely for … Continue reading →

I’ve already blogged about the LIBER meeting last week, but TDM is now a central part of my raison d’etre and there is going to be a lot on this blog. I’m close to announcing the first alpha release of … Continue reading →

Last week there was an important meeting run by LIBER, the association of Research Libraries in Europe. http://www.libereurope.eu/news/the-perfect-swell-a-workshop-on-text-and-data-mining-for-data-driven-innovation. To be quite clear, the meeting was held because (legacy, scholarly) publishers are spending large amounts of time, effort and money to … Continue reading →

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the draft of its report last week – http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/#.UkweFhDB_cg . It’s > 2100 pp and I have downloaded the whole lot and – with the help of my software – will read it. … Continue reading →