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open access : Thank you American Chemical Society

Posted on September 23, 2007 by pm286

In my reviews of the practice of Open Access (Author Choice in Chemistry at ACS – and elsewhere?) I pointed out that there were deficiences in access and labelling on Open offerings. I’ve now had a reply from Dave Martinsen: … Continue reading →

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How blogging makes contacts and seeds communities

Posted on September 23, 2007 by pm286

I mailed yesterday about how blogging links to other blogs and generates new contacts. Here is a direct example: Jakob Says: You wrote: “More, because I have added this link to my blog, Jakoblog will get notified.” This is true … Continue reading →

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Does linking to technorati tags generate spam?

Posted on September 23, 2007 by pm286

In a recent post (blogs, folksonomies and tagging – get going!) I encouraged the Open Access community to start using blogs and tagging. I specifically pointed to Technorati to illustrate the value and showed that some conferences had huge amounts … Continue reading →

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blogs, folksonomies and tagging – get going!

Posted on September 22, 2007 by pm286

At the recent “Berlin 5” meeting on Open Access I noted sadly that I was the only person blogging the meeting. Normally there are many bloggers at the meetings I go to so I (and everyone else) can choose what … Continue reading →

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berlin5: final thoughts

Posted on September 22, 2007 by pm286

Some final thoughts on the berlin-5 meeting on Open Access in Padova – I have spent more blog time than I thought and I am probably driving any chemical/software readers up the wall. This should be the last post with … Continue reading →

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berlin5 : Alma Swan

Posted on September 21, 2007 by pm286

The final keynote by Alma Swan, familiar to all in the OA field. How are we doing? (Alma does a lot of surveys, interviews questionnaires, etc.) We are getting definition creep. There should be no qualification of OA – it’s … Continue reading →

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TOPAZ and CLADDIER

Posted on September 21, 2007 by pm286

Hopefully of great interest to those of us looking at self-publishing, Open Notebooks, etc. Deepak Singh: A publication and a publication framework When PLoS One was first announced, one of the first things that caught my eye was the fact … Continue reading →

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berlin5 : NIH and RCUK

Posted on September 21, 2007 by pm286

NIH has an open policy since 1994. Barbar Seto presented an example, GWAS which has to deal with human subjects. How to make data Open, while protecting identity? NIH serves as central data repository, including: Genome-wide acssociation study (GWAS), Genbank, … Continue reading →

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berlin5: Open Data and institutional repositories

Posted on September 21, 2007 by pm286

John Marks (ESF) introduced our session and set the scene on the need for Open Data and sharing. He stated strongly that it was essential that we had discipline-specific repositories for different branches of science. I share this view and … Continue reading →

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berlin5 : Maxine Clarke

Posted on September 21, 2007 by pm286

Maxine is presenting Nature’s practice and philosophy on data. (Hope I capture this OK – there is a lot or material) In the early 1990’s they introduced Supplementary Info (SI). 2007 they have fully integrated online methods. SI is largely … Continue reading →

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