Category Archives: data

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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HHMI – green or gold? And the data?

Posted on June 27, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber has highlighted a new policy by HHMI and given a careful critique of what “Open” may or may not mean. It’s a good illustration of the fuzzy language that is often used to describe “Open”.  See: HHMI mandates … Continue reading →

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Data and Institutional Repositories

Posted on June 23, 2007 by pm286

One of the themes of ETD2007 was a strong emphasis on IR’s. Not surprising since they are topical and a natural place to put theses and dissertations. Almost everyone there – many from the Library and Information Services (LIS) community … Continue reading →

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CML on ICE – towards Open chemical/scientific authoring

Posted on June 23, 2007 by pm286

Because WWMM had outages my blogging is behind and I’d written a post on Peter Sefton’s ICE. Peter and I met at ETD2007 and immediately clicked. But WWMM went to sleep and I haven’t reposted. Peter has beaten me to … Continue reading →

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Author Choice in Chemistry at ACS – and elsewhere?

Posted on June 23, 2007 by pm286

A number of closed access journals/publishers have brought out “Author Choice” and similar approaches where authors pay publishers for “open access”. The details probably varies from publisher to publisher and I have been idly looking for examples in chemistry. It … Continue reading →

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Alicia's Open Science Thesis

Posted on June 8, 2007 by pm286

Jean-Claude Bradley and coworkers has pioneered the concept of Open Science in chemistry – and it goes beyond that. On UsefulChem he writes: The fact that Alicia’s masters thesis “Synthesis of Diketopiperazines, Possible Malaria Enoyl Reducatase Inhibitors Using Open Source … Continue reading →

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JISC meeting on institutional repositories

Posted on June 8, 2007 by pm286

JISC has issued a summary on the conference I have just attended, About Digital repositories: Dealing with the digital deluge (Manchester, June 5-6, 2007). The summary deals with the plenary sessions – I might have commented if this blog had been … Continue reading →

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Podcast on Semantic Web, Open Access and Open Data

Posted on June 1, 2007 by pm286

Paul Miller of Talis interviewed me over the phone today and the result has been captured as a podcast. It’s rather longer than I suspect either of us expected (70 mins) – I have spent some time explaining the basics … Continue reading →

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Data validation in publications

Posted on May 31, 2007 by pm286

Tony Williams’ comment to my post (Data validation and protcol validation – May 31st, 2007) has several valuable themes which I expand on here and in later posts. Tony and I are in agreement here and working towards something that … Continue reading →

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Data validation and protcol validation

Posted on May 31, 2007 by pm286

This post replies to an ongoing debate about the quality of data and Open vs Closed data and systems. It’s specifically about NMR (spectroscopy) but my points are general. Since I have been publicly critical of some systems I must … Continue reading →

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