Category Archives: chemistry

Open Access at Copernicus

Posted on July 16, 2007 by pm286

In further travels I have come across Copernicus GmbH, “A Spin-Off of the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie und Sonnensystemforschung”. This is listed in DOAJ and publishes Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (which is of interest to me as I have a colleague … Continue reading →

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"Open Access" at libertas academica

Posted on July 15, 2007 by pm286

As I have mentioned a group of Blue Obelisk volunteers are surveying the practice of “open access” in chemistry. We’ve created a wiki and will be exposing the work as we do it – url follows when we have tidied … Continue reading →

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Survey of "free to read" Chemistry in Wiley Publications

Posted on July 13, 2007 by pm286

The Blue Obelisk community is undertaking a survey of access to chemical Open Data through Open Access, Fuzzy Open Access, and closed Access publications. Today I looked at Wiley’s offering. (Note although Blackwell and Wiley are now one company I … Continue reading →

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US citizens: please lobby for House vote on OA mandate next Tuesday

Posted on July 13, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber blogs: House vote on OA mandate next Tuesday  (Open Access News) Yesterday when I posted the good news that the House Appropriations Committee had approved an OA mandate for the NIH, I didn’t have the exact language of … 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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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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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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Open Reading Mashup – would it work for chemistry?

Posted on July 1, 2007 by pm286

Bill Hooker – a staunch supporter and campaigner for Open Data – has published his first mashup. He queries whether it actually is one – and I tend to agree – but the effect is to bring together different sources … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Organic Synthesis (a subversive proposal)

Posted on June 30, 2007 by pm286

Every months we get several new chemistry blogs – I don’t have time to do more than glance at them but I was struck by a newcomer, TotallyRetrosynthetic. (TotallyFoo is a metasyntactic linguistic style sparked off by TotallySynthetic.) Retrosynthesis is … Continue reading →

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