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Copyright madness – story 1

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

Today I have come across two accounts of copyright problems which highlight the complete absurdity of our current practices in the twenty-first century. We are crippling our scientific process. Here’s the first from my colleague Nico Adams’ blog. It’s a … Continue reading →

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CrystalEye GreaseMonkey

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

Nick Day has just released a Greasemonkey script which provides a full crystallographic overlay for existing journals. It’s worth trying as it’s visually exciting as well as very useful. This post tells you what it does, how it works, and … Continue reading →

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Gerry Toomey, Richard Jefferson and open science

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

I was very pleased to meet Richard Jefferson of CAMBIA at scifoo. I was reminded of our conversation by a quote in a recent item on Peter Suber’s blog (below), and thence tempted into reading the whole article which is … Continue reading →

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Dave Martinsen reviews ACS and Greasemonkey

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

Noel O’Boyle has highlighted a review by Dave Martinsen of the American Chemical Society. Dave has been very supportive of the new technologies and ideas that are emerging and has run sessions at the ACS meetings highlighting them. Here he … Continue reading →

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scifoo: academic publishing and what can computer scientists do?

Posted on August 14, 2007 by pm286

Jim Hendler has summarised several scifoo sessions related to publishing and peer-review and added thoughts for the future (there’s mote to come).  It’s long, but I didn’t feel anything could be selectively deleted so I’ve left only the last para, … Continue reading →

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lemon8-XML and theses

Posted on August 13, 2007 by pm286

Via Peter Suber. Although the full post is important for Open Access new, I concentrate on an XML tool I hadn’t heard of: Interview with John Willinsky 15:13 13/08/2007, Peter Suber, Open Access News Dean Giustini, UBC’s John Willinsky – … Continue reading →

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touchgraph for this blog

Posted on August 13, 2007 by pm286

Having mentioned touchgraph Egon has already gone and got it running. Touchgraphing my blog Via SciFoo Planet (from Partial immortalization)I learned about TouchGraph Google (Peter brought it into Chemical blogspace). It’s cool, though not open source. Here’s the touch graph … Continue reading →

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open data: centralised or decentralized?

Posted on August 13, 2007 by pm286

Deepak Singh highlights one of the emerging approaches to global data, Freebase. Recall that at scifoo we also heard about Google’s offer to host scientific data: Freebase at Scifoo Published 15 hours, 44 minutes ago in Software & Internet, Semantic … Continue reading →

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miniblogosphere

Posted on August 12, 2007 by pm286

Here’s Pimm (attilachordash) with a nice picture of the linkages in the scifoo tag cloud. SciFoo links visualized by TouchGraph Google Browser Posted by attilachordash on August 11th, 2007 The Google Hacks book from O’Reilly was one out of the free … Continue reading →

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save our spectra

Posted on August 12, 2007 by pm286

Data in chemistry publications is very standardized which makes it possible (not easy) to think about robotic extraction of information. I’ve blogged earlier about the use of text, but what about graphics? This post shows the potential, but also the … Continue reading →

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