Author Archives: pm286

I’m serious. From start to finish this was a superb three-day meeting of young people who know that current scholarship/publishing/university_practice has so many injustices and so much waste that we cannot go on this way. Must be brief – airport. … Continue reading →

There ‘s a very useful blog post http://scoms.hypotheses.org/276 on Elsevier’s content-mining conditions in France. I assume this is layered on the recent French five-year mega-deal with Elsevier.  My school French isn’t good enough for technico-legal terms, so I cannot comment … Continue reading →

ContentMine has a new collaborator – an astrophysicist. We’re going to work together on mining data from journals. Their leading two include “The Astrophysics Journal” (TAJ) published by the Institute of Physics (IOP). Now s/he’s one of the #scholarlypoor – … Continue reading →

I have been silent for the last month because I have been very busy. I hope to blog more in the next few days. The main activities have been The twice-yearly Gathering of Shuttleworth fellows (this time in Malta). My … Continue reading →

My last post (/pmr/2014/09/15/wosp2014-text-and-data-mining-ii-elseviers-presentation-gemma-hersh/ ) described the unacceptable and intransigent attitude of Elsevier’s Gemma Hersh at WOSP2014 Text and Datamining of Scientific Documents. But there was a nother face to Elsevier at the meeting, Chris Shillum. (http://www.slideshare.net/cshillum ). Charles Oppenheim … Continue reading →

WOSP2014 – http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/dl2014/ – is a scholarly, peer-reviwed workshop. It consists of submiited, peer-reviewed talks and demos and invited talks from well-known people in the field (Lee Giles,  Birger Larsen). At ContentMine we submiited three papers/demos which were peer-reviewed and accepted … Continue reading →

On Friday 2014-09-12 4 of us from The ContentMine presented 3 papers at WOSP2014 (http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/dl2014/) . The meeting was well run by Petr Knoth and colleagues from the Open University and CORE (the JISC- and funder-supported project for aggregation of … Continue reading →

The STM publishers made Ebola-related articles free to read for a whole 4 weeks (August 14 – Sept 10).   Time’s up = Now Ebola patients, healthcare workers, decisions makers have to pay as usual to find out about Ebola… … Continue reading →

I’m watching the BBC Horizon special on Ebola. This epidemic is worse than all the others put together. Information is an essential tool in fighting the epidemic.

The Wellcome Trust and other funders have commisioned a study on ESTABLISHING INCENTIVES AND CHANGING CULTURES TO SUPPORT DATA ACCESS http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@msh_peda/documents/web_document/wtp056495.pdf (This is a report of the Expert Advisory Group on Data Access (EAGDA). EAGDA was established by the MRC, … Continue reading →