Category Archives: open issues

Outrage: Repurposing Open Access material is allowed without explicit permission

Posted on October 13, 2007 by pm286

In One Day I’ll Have Lunch with Egon Willighagen Too… Chemspiderman wrote “So what can we do now to help making connections between papers and molecules? Peter Corbett, who works with Peter Murray Rust, is working on automated methods of … Continue reading →

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FROG – not just Free, but Open (PRODRG take note)

Posted on October 13, 2007 by pm286

I am delighted to announce and praise FROG, a free service for creating 3D molecular structures from connection tables. This is yet another module in the list of Open chemistry offerings that will ultimately give the tools to the chemistry … Continue reading →

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Chemspider and "Open Chemistry Web"

Posted on October 13, 2007 by pm286

Recently the Chemspider company has announced an “Open Chemistry Web” which in my opinion misuses the word “Open”. Before I start I’ll review my relationships and attitude to Chemspider and Chemspiderman to try to clear the air. Chemspider.com and its … Continue reading →

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"How can we persuade ACS to change?"

Posted on October 12, 2007 by pm286

David Wild Says: October 11th, 2007 at 1:41 pm eSo does anyone have any ideas on how we can pursuade ACS to change? I’m not sure the usual forms of protest would work. We can obviously resign our memberships, but … Continue reading →

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WWMM calculation of spectra (proposed)

Posted on October 11, 2007 by pm286

Jean-Claude Bradley has offered us the spectra that come out of his Open Notebook projects… Jean-Claude Bradley Says: October 11th, 2007 at 1:32 pm ePeter – it is great to see you contributing to open NMR data processing. For a … Continue reading →

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Open NoteBook Science, Chemspiderman, GIAO and HOSE. We write the final paper

Posted on October 11, 2007 by pm286

We posted yesterday about our proposed Open NoteBook approach to 13C chemical shifts from experiment and calculation and Chemspiderman has posted very helpful contributions, including offers of help. This is much appreciated and accepted. The main problem we have is … Continue reading →

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We start Open Notebook Science at UCC on calculating NMR

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

We are starting an experiment on Open Notebook Science. See (Open Notebook Science Using Blogs and Wikis : Nature Precedings, Drexel CoAS E-Learning: Open Notebook Science, Useful Chemistry: Cameron Neylon on Open Notebook Science, Drexel CoAS talks mp3 podcast: Open … Continue reading →

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What are the shortest and longest known As-As bonds?

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

How would you find the answer to this question? How long did it take you? How sure are you that your answer is correct? What would you do to check? Comments welcome.

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A sad day for ACS

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber has relayed a message which has been widely posted. More on executive bonuses at the ACS This memo from “ACS Insider” has been sent directly to many librarians and university administrators, and to at least one public listserv, … Continue reading →

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Re-use: Price and permission barriers

Posted on October 10, 2007 by pm286

When scientists read publications they often want to re-use them. What do we mean by “re-use”? Isn’t reading good enough? No. Re-use means that they can take the information in the publication and, while preserving the provenance, use it for … Continue reading →

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