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Open Access – Reply to Springer

Posted on July 9, 2007 by pm286

In a recent post Springer – I resign from your Journal – July 8th, 2007 I criticized Springer for their failure to implement their Open Choice according to their promise to authors. I thank Jan Velterop for his speedy and … Continue reading →

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Springer – I resign from your Journal

Posted on July 8, 2007 by pm286

Till today I was a member of the editorial board of Journal of Molecular Modeling · Computational Chemistry – Life Sciences – Advanced Materials – New Methods – published by Springer. It wasn’t very onerous – I occasionally got a … Continue reading →

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What's so wonderful about citations?

Posted on July 7, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber reports: Download milestone for BMC article 20:34 06/07/2007, Peter Suber, Open Access News Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Open access article on consensus definition of acute renal failure has been accessed more than 100,000 times, BioMed Central blog, July 6, 2007. … Continue reading →

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Is Citation Extortion practised?

Posted on July 6, 2007 by pm286

At ETD2007 one of the delegates related and experience with a publisher – I never got the details. She had submitted a manuscript and been told by the publisher (or editor) that it would not be published unless she included … Continue reading →

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The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) – Open Knowledge Foundation

Posted on July 5, 2007 by pm286

Rufus Pollock is a tireless campaigner for Openness. He is a graduate student at Cambridge – “writing up”, but still with enormous energy for other activities in the area of Openness. He is a highly competent hacker – and promotes … Continue reading →

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Where the scientific mind is without fear (Totally Retrosynthetic)

Posted on July 4, 2007 by pm286

This is the title of Totally Restrosynthetic’s lastest post Where the scientific mind is without fear. The post of Peter Murray-Rust about my totallyretrosynthetic blog made me to do this post though I have been very busy lately. (I am … Continue reading →

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FINO – Free is Not Open

Posted on July 4, 2007 by pm286

Bill Hooker of Open Reading Frame has yet again and very clearly expounded the difference between Free and Open. FINO = Free is Not Open What follows may look like the same old arguments. It isn’t! The difference is that … Continue reading →

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Making a donkey from a hamburger (XHTML)

Posted on July 4, 2007 by pm286

Peter Sefton and we are collaborating on tools to create XHTML and other markup languages in a simple environment. But surely there are tools already to manage HTML – it’s ca 15 years old…? Yes, there are tools – and … Continue reading →

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Chemistry in MathML and CML – comments?

Posted on July 3, 2007 by pm286

[warning – WordPress is not very math/chem friendly so forgive formatting] Michael Kohlhase and I are trying to come up with a synthesis of MathML and CML for representing the numerical aspects fo chemistry. By chance we have started with … Continue reading →

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MathML and CML communities

Posted on July 2, 2007 by pm286

I was delighted to meet old friends from the MathML/OpenMath community last week at Mathematical Knowledge Management 2007 – Patrick Ion, Robert Miner, James Davenport and Michael Kohlhase (apologies to any I have omitted). OpenMath (1993) was one of the … Continue reading →

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