Author Archives: pm286

  It’s a year since I started TheContentMine (contentmine.org) – a project funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation. In ContentMine we intend to extract all the world’s scientific and medical facts from the scholarly literature and make them available to everyone … Continue reading →

We are having a ContentMine hackday – open to all – this Friday in Cambridge https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contentmining-hackday-in-cambridge-facilitated-by-contentmine-tickets-716287435 . We are VERY grateful to Laura James, from our Advisory Board who also set up the Cambridge Makespace where the event will be … Continue reading →

One of the “benefits” we get from paying publishers to publish our work is that they “typeset” it. Actually they don’t. They pay typesetters to mutilate it. I don’t know how much they pay but it’s probably > 10 USD … Continue reading →

TL;DR We had a great session at FORCE2015 yesterday in Oxford – people liked it, understood it, and are wanting to join us. We ran a pre-conference workshop for 3 hours followed by extra hack. This was open to all … Continue reading →

TL;DR. WE outline the tools and pipeline which ContentMine will show on Sunday at Force2015. They are very general and accessible to everyone…. ContentMine technology and community is maturing quickly. We’ve just had a wonderful three days in Berlin with … Continue reading →

We’ve been very busy and I haven’t blogged as much as I’d liked. Here’s an update and news about immediate events. Firstly to welcome Graham Steel (McDawg) who is joining us as community manager. Graham is a massive figure in the … Continue reading →

I got the above unwanted Twitter from Wiley (I have checked as far as possible that it’s genuine). It seems to be Wiley advertising a free to read article. I have pasted the message so you can try this at … Continue reading →

TL;DR Elsevier typsetting turns double bonds into garbage. Those of you who follow this blog will know that I contend that publishers corrupt manuscripts and thereby destroy science. Those of you who follow this blog will know that Elsevier publicly … Continue reading →

I’ve just been trying to mine publicly visible scientific publications from scholarly publishers. (That’s right – “publicly visible” – Hargreaves comes later). AND THE TECHNICAL QUALITY IS AWFUL. PUBLISHERS DESTROY SCIENCE THROUGH THEIR TECHNICAL INCOMPETENCE AND INDIFFERENCE. They destroy the … Continue reading →