Monthly Archives: April 2014

Open Access Button; Thursday 2014-04-10:1300 London; This is where scholarly publishing gets changed

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

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We should have Collaboration as well as competition in research. Citizens please join in!

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

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ACSGate: has Atypon fallen into its own Publisher Spider Trap? and the ACS reply

<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

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Open Access Questions for Universities at Leicester 2014-04-04

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

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ACSGate: what the Twitterati think of American Chemical Society's Spider Trap

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

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American Chemical Society Spider Trap: My latest thoughts 2014-04-03:14:44 UTC

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

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Wellcome Trust and Michelle Brook say thank you to all who are helping hack the WT APC data and highlight major issues

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

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ACSGate: The American Chemical Society spider trap; reactions and warning

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

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My talk on #openaccess at University of Leicester 2014-04-04:1300 UTC

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

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ACSGate: Pandora opens the American Chemical Society's box and her University gets cut off

  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

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