Author Archives: pm286

Problems with character sets when blogging

Posted on July 12, 2007 by pm286

This post is primarily to test Feedburner which gripes about strange characters. Some of my material comes from other sites such as the publisher’s web pages that I have been analysing recently. These contain all sort of strange material such … Continue reading →

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Do authors want to give publishers a monopoly over their data?

Posted on July 12, 2007 by pm286

In response to my post Why doesn’t Springer use a CC licence? and Bill Hooker’s reply Egon Willighagen writes: Egon Says: Bill, regarding [1]… I think the following plays a role here. Say the make it CC-BY, and someone extracts … Continue reading →

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"Open Access" – Elsevier, Wiley, RSC

Posted on July 12, 2007 by pm286

xx My survey of “open access” in chemistry publishers is part of a larger project which will be revealed shortly. I had not planned to look at closed access publishers but thought it was worth checking what they offered and … Continue reading →

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Why doesn't Springer use a CC licence?

Posted on July 11, 2007 by pm286

In a reply to a post of mine, Jan Velterop of Springer writes, and I comment, I hope, constructively. Jan Velterop Says: July 11th, 2007 at 10:29 am eDear Peter (and Bill), [Bill Hooker] JV: The wish to improve findability … Continue reading →

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Blackwell also fails to deliver Open Access

Posted on July 11, 2007 by pm286

[To verify my assertions in this you will have to be on a machine that does not have institutional access to Blackwell publications. I am doing this from home] I am a crystallographer and proud of it. We work very … Continue reading →

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SPECTRa – we've been blogged!

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

It’s rather gratifying when someone else reports our own work, nn this case Chemistry Central blog. They have picked up our 18-month project with Imperial and this substantial summary saves us the work of creating our own: The findings of … Continue reading →

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Voyages into publisher copyright – End of course exam

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

In the last 4 posts we have seen several varieties of Open Access (or Free Access) (or Hidden Access) or Fuzzy Access. Now it’s time to see how well you have been following these tutorials. So we have picked yet … Continue reading →

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Voyages into publisher copyright – Less than full Open Access and less than Free

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

Continuing our exploration of Open Access – let’s stick with chemistry (after all I don’t know about anything else). Last year the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced: ACS Offers Open-Access Option To Authors Sophie Rovner In October [2006], American Chemical … Continue reading →

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Voyages into publisher copyright – Full Open Access.

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

Some readers may wonder why I am spending energy and words on Open Access to publishers’ sites when I can simply read the papers they have listed as OA. Surely that’s all that matters? Well, no. I’m a scientist and … Continue reading →

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NC or not-NC

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

NC or not-NC – the future of this blog awaits your verdict. There have been recent comments suggesting that as I am advocating CC-BY (and not CC-NC) for Open Access papers, then this blog should also use CC-BY. CC-BY is … Continue reading →

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