Category Archives: open issues

Paul Miller on the Web of Data

Posted on October 9, 2007 by pm286

Paul visited us today (Paul Miller speaking at UCC) and gave a beautiful presentation on the Web of Data. Literally beautiful. He had worked very hard on preparing it and it flowed imperceptibly from simple beginnings to a current conclusion. … Continue reading →

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Billion-dollar Scientific Scholarship?

Posted on October 9, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber seems to have connections everywhere and picked up this really exciting post about how there is a wide-open market to completely restructure scientific publishing. Alexandre Linhares is the Director-General of the Brazilian Chapter of the Club of Rome. … Continue reading →

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"This explains a lot"

Posted on October 7, 2007 by pm286

Followers of Peter Suber’s blog know that he is one of the fairest, most objective, writers and thinkers on Open Access. He gives credit where it is due even for advances which he feels are largely suboptimal. I have corresponded … Continue reading →

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Thank you JCB for Free XML

Posted on October 6, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s blog TA journal deposits its new articles in PMC after six months 17:26 04/10/2007, Peter Suber, Open Access News Emma Hill, JCB content automatically deposited in PubMed Central (PMC), Journal of Cell Biology, October 1, 2007. An … Continue reading →

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Why Open Access really matters

Posted on October 2, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s blog. This time a real threat to peer review and quality control 22:26 01/10/2007, Peter Suber, Open Access News Sergio Sismondo, Ghost Management: How Much of the Medical Literature Is Shaped Behind the Scenes by the Pharmaceutical … Continue reading →

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Can chemical structures be right or wrong?

Posted on October 2, 2007 by pm286

Chemspiderman has commented… ChemSpider Blog » Blog Archive » Dictionary Lookups and Optical Structure Recognition Versus Structure Drawing. Which is Less Error Prone? Says: October 2nd, 2007 at 5:48 am e[…] Luqidcarbon has put up a recent blog posting about … Continue reading →

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The chemical blogosphere cares

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

Wow! I posted a request yesterday (sic) for supporting material for our proposal to JISC for a person to support the blogosphere as a major resource for increasing the quality of published chemistry. I have had valuable contributions from 4 … Continue reading →

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I submit a Nature article to Nature Precedings

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

I have been invited by the editors of Nature to submit a review/commentary article, currently on the theme of “Open Chemistry”. This is currently under the title “Horizons” though the actual format may change before publication. I wrote the article … Continue reading →

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Comments on comments and agents and eyeballs

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

One of the difficult features of blogs is how to manage comments. On this blog these are relatively infrequent, wile on – say –ChemBark, TotallySynthetic.com or The Chem Blog some articles generate over 100 replies. I got into the habit … Continue reading →

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Guerilla OA activity

Posted on October 1, 2007 by pm286

Blogged by Peter Suber: Graham Steele, Conference Report, McBlawg, September 29, 2007.  Excerpt: Here is a report in relation to my attendance of NeuroPrion 2007 26th – 28th September, Edinburgh, Scotland…. Given the approximate number (~ 800) [of attendees], clearly, … Continue reading →

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