Monthly Archives: April 2014

Tomorrow is a very important day for OPEN – the Open Access Button initiative (https://www.openaccessbutton.org ) is holding an afternoon get-together in London. The OAButton is driven by undergraduates – initially in Medicine – who are frustrated and now ANGRY about … Continue reading →

Daniel Mietchen [one of the central figures in Open Science / Wikimedia] has just posted to the OKF Open-Science list   as briefly mentioned before, we are working on a public proposal to make research proposals increasingly open: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/opening-up-research-proposals . … Continue reading →

<s>No word yet from ACS  so some of this is hypothetical – but they are communal hypotheses.</s> It seems the spider trap is part of Atypon software (http://www.atypon.com). From their site: Atypon delivers innovative solutions that revolutionize the way publishers … Continue reading →

In my event at Leicester today (/pmr/2014/04/03/my-talk-on-openaccess-at-university-of-leicester-2014-04-041300-utc/ ) I shall emphasise the wider picture. Since the audience has many from the library I’ll probably concentrate on that. So here are some questions – if anyone reads beforehand think of some answers … Continue reading →

I don’t normally scrape Twitter, but there’s been a lot of useful comment on the ACS spider trap. The consensus (among the people I follow) is that it’s irresponsible, inappropriate seriously obsolete Here’s two authorities you can trust: @crossRefNews. CrossRef … Continue reading →

It appears that the Spider trap (whatever it is) has affected many people. I have no full understanding of what has happened but here is my best analysis: People have really been affected (it’s not just a rumour). They have … Continue reading →

A mail from Michelle on the OKFN open-access list: Hey all, The Wellcome Trust has just said thank you to the community for the work we’ve been doing on the author processing charge dataset they released: https://twitter.com/wellcometrust/status/451659293801340928:  where WT said:   … Continue reading →

DO NOT FOLLOW ANY LINKS IN THIS POST – THEY ARE HIGHLY DANGEROUS The Sydney Funnel-Web spider (Thx: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atrax_robustus) is among the deadliest in the world. The American Chemical Society’s Spider trap is also deadly. It can cause whole universities … Continue reading →

I’m talking tomorrow at the University of Leicester in the heart of England. Leicester is where Richard III was recently dug up in car park. But more importantly it’s an excellent University and I have worked with the Biomedical groups … Continue reading →

  Pandora is a researcher (won’t say where, won’t say when). I don’t know her field – she may be a scientist or a librarian. She has been scanning the spreadsheet of the Open Access publications paid for by Wellcome Trust. It’s … Continue reading →