Author Archives: pm286

Jenny Molloy is a central figure in the Open community and has been particularly active in campaigning for Content Mining. We are delighted that she is part of our core team on the ContentMine project (http://contentmine.org).  AMI the kangaroo is … Continue reading →

The blog had some glitches recently (technically “bumps on the road of our journey”).  These were due to upgrades. I couldn’t post and people couldn’t comment. I can now post, but comments don’t show up. If you have comments mail … Continue reading →

The web is wonderful! The best way to write code is not to. I posted this morning about the problems I had in using Java for Optical Character Recognition. And within an hour I had this great response from David … Continue reading →

In The Content Mine and PLUTo projects we need OCR to interpret diagrams with letters and numbers. OCR is a well tested and developed technology and widely used. Unfortunately it’s not trivial to find a Open (F/LOSS) Java solution (please … Continue reading →

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 →