Monthly Archives: September 2014

My last post (/pmr/2014/09/15/wosp2014-text-and-data-mining-ii-elseviers-presentation-gemma-hersh/ ) described the unacceptable and intransigent attitude of Elsevier’s Gemma Hersh at WOSP2014 Text and Datamining of Scientific Documents. But there was a nother face to Elsevier at the meeting, Chris Shillum. (http://www.slideshare.net/cshillum ). Charles Oppenheim … Continue reading →

WOSP2014 – http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/dl2014/ – is a scholarly, peer-reviwed workshop. It consists of submiited, peer-reviewed talks and demos and invited talks from well-known people in the field (Lee Giles,  Birger Larsen). At ContentMine we submiited three papers/demos which were peer-reviewed and accepted … Continue reading →

On Friday 2014-09-12 4 of us from The ContentMine presented 3 papers at WOSP2014 (http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/dl2014/) . The meeting was well run by Petr Knoth and colleagues from the Open University and CORE (the JISC- and funder-supported project for aggregation of … Continue reading →

The STM publishers made Ebola-related articles free to read for a whole 4 weeks (August 14 – Sept 10).   Time’s up = Now Ebola patients, healthcare workers, decisions makers have to pay as usual to find out about Ebola… … Continue reading →

I’m watching the BBC Horizon special on Ebola. This epidemic is worse than all the others put together. Information is an essential tool in fighting the epidemic.