Category Archives: open issues

Special issue of CTWatch on the coming revolution in scholarly communication

Posted on August 24, 2007 by pm286

I have been busy with grants and hacking so have been away from the blog. (Making good progress on new ways of inputting and displaying chemistry). Here is a very important set of papers which are all highly relevant to … Continue reading →

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scifoo: One chemical per one laptop?

Posted on August 17, 2007 by pm286

On the Open Knowledge Foundation blog I noticed a call for projects related to One Laptop Per Child (which we saw at scifoo). I’m wondering what we could do in chemistry – there is so much around and so much … Continue reading →

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When does open science work?

Posted on August 17, 2007 by pm286

It’s funny how things turn out in the blogosphere. I’d posted about how ludicrous copyright on dead scientists’ work (Copyright madness – story 2) was and expected some comment from the librarian community. Silence (there’s still time to comment!). I … Continue reading →

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Green Fluorescent Wow!

Posted on August 16, 2007 by pm286

A blogger (Black Knight) left a comment on my blog yesterday and in an idle moment I went to see what sort of things they were interested in and found: Velvet Green This has got to be in the running … Continue reading →

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Copyright madness – story 2

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

Continuing the theme of my last post on copyright absurdities here is the gist of a mail I got today – I have rewritten it in my own words and changed identities. My correspondent is writing a scholarly account of … Continue reading →

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Copyright madness – story 1

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

Today I have come across two accounts of copyright problems which highlight the complete absurdity of our current practices in the twenty-first century. We are crippling our scientific process. Here’s the first from my colleague Nico Adams’ blog. It’s a … Continue reading →

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Gerry Toomey, Richard Jefferson and open science

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

I was very pleased to meet Richard Jefferson of CAMBIA at scifoo. I was reminded of our conversation by a quote in a recent item on Peter Suber’s blog (below), and thence tempted into reading the whole article which is … Continue reading →

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Dave Martinsen reviews ACS and Greasemonkey

Posted on August 15, 2007 by pm286

Noel O’Boyle has highlighted a review by Dave Martinsen of the American Chemical Society. Dave has been very supportive of the new technologies and ideas that are emerging and has run sessions at the ACS meetings highlighting them. Here he … Continue reading →

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open data: centralised or decentralized?

Posted on August 13, 2007 by pm286

Deepak Singh highlights one of the emerging approaches to global data, Freebase. Recall that at scifoo we also heard about Google’s offer to host scientific data: Freebase at Scifoo Published 15 hours, 44 minutes ago in Software & Internet, Semantic … Continue reading →

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open data: public domain?

Posted on August 11, 2007 by pm286

David Wiley has a useful post on the “public domain”. I had always assumed that the public domain was fairly simple – certain types of content were de facto PD, authors could easily donate their work to the PD, and … Continue reading →

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