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Berlin 5: Open access – both easy and difficult

Posted on September 19, 2007 by pm286

I’ve arrived at Berlin 5 after the welcoming. The Opening Plenary is by Sijbold Noorda (on behalf of European Universitie Association) with the theme: “Open access – both easy and difficult”. (PMR: No comments from me). It’s a simple concept … Continue reading →

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Name that graph

Posted on September 19, 2007 by pm286

I took a snap poll of my colleagues. 2 knew it. One worked it out gradually. 2 did not know it. I think every human in education above the age of 10 should know it I am writing an article … Continue reading →

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US citizens: act!

Posted on September 18, 2007 by pm286

Essential action from Peter Suber’s blog: var imagebase=’file://C:/Program Files/FeedReader30/’; Note to US citizens The American Library Association has created an action alert to simplify the process of asking your Senators to support the strengthening of the NIH policy.  However, it … Continue reading →

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Name that graph (acknowledgements to Rich)

Posted on September 17, 2007 by pm286

Rich Apodaca has an excellent series of graphs (e.g. Name That Graph) where he has removed key annotations (titles, units, axes, etc.) I’m not going to to steal his theme but there is one graph that I hope my readership … Continue reading →

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Peter Murray-Rust: Prospect and Nessie and OSCAR

Posted on September 17, 2007 by pm286

I am delighted to congratulate the Royal Society of Chemistry on their award for Project Prospect. Prospect is one of the first examples of true semantic publishing. We’re pleased to have been closely involved – 5 years ago David James … Continue reading →

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change because old scientists die

Posted on September 17, 2007 by pm286

Tobias Kind has asked (Comment to Nature Protocols: How much can we re-use?) why shouldn’t require chemists to submit data… Hi Peter, making chemistry data machine-readable is not the business of the publisher! It’s the business of the chemists themselves … Continue reading →

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Nature Protocols: How much can we re-use?

Posted on September 12, 2007 by pm286

In my last post (Nature: How much content can our robots access?) I asked general questions about what data, if any, in a scientific article publishers would not allow humans and robots to use without permission. So, as an example, … Continue reading →

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Nature: How much content can our robots access?

Posted on September 12, 2007 by pm286

In this blog ( Copyrighted Data: replies [1], Wiley and eMolecules: unacceptable; an explanation would be welcome –[2] , and elsewhere we have been discussing the “copyright” of factual information, or “data”. In [2] I ask a major publisher whether … Continue reading →

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PRISM: Cambridge UP distances itself

Posted on September 11, 2007 by pm286

As readers will know I have written Open letters to publishers with whom I have a connection about their connection with PRISM. I am pleased to report that I have a clear response from CUP, the University’s press. Interestingly – … Continue reading →

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AHM2007: Best paper (Jon Blower) – Virtual globes Hurricanes and penguins

Posted on September 11, 2007 by pm286

Jon Blower was awarded the best paper at AHM2007 . This is an an outstanding example of escience where SIMPLE technology is brought to bear on multiple datasets, each of which by themselves does not carry a message but the … Continue reading →

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