Category Archives: open issues

Request for clarification of copyright and re-use on CIFs from Elsevier/CCDC

Posted on July 30, 2007 by pm286

==== copy of letter to CCDC requesting clarification on copyright ==== To:data_request@ccdc.cam.ac.uk Greetings (Sorry to use a generic address but I am not sure who is the person to contact about permissions). We have a systematic program of carrying out … Continue reading →

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Republican vision of Open Source Research

Posted on July 29, 2007 by pm286

from Peter Suber’s blog: Tommy Thompson wants open source research Tommy Thompson, Republican presidential candidate and former Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, has announced his science platform: double the budget of the NIH (to $58 billion/year), … Continue reading →

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cyberscience: extracting crystallography from Elsevier's Tetrahedron via CCDC

Posted on July 29, 2007 by pm286

Regular readers will know of our Crystaleye repository where Nick Day’s robots have – quite legally – extracted ca 100,000 crystal structures from the Open AND closed literature. However it is not yet comprehensive as some publishers do not expose … Continue reading →

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Closed access damages peer-review

Posted on July 28, 2007 by pm286

I talked today with a scientist (R) whom I meet frequently and who works in a leading bioscientific research establishment (not a University, but with Nobel laureate and FRS on the staff). In addition to their day job, R acts … Continue reading →

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THANK YOU LIBERTAS ACADEMICA

Posted on July 28, 2007 by pm286

Avid and continual readers of this blog will remember that some of us in the Blue Obelisk have set out to monitor the posted policy and licenses of “open access” publishers or publishers which offer some “open access” products. We … Continue reading →

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"open access" to data – let's be precise

Posted on July 27, 2007 by pm286

In the last post (Reply from softCon on Spectra and “open access”) I report how ICSU (CODATA) use the phrase “open access”: Here are some quotations from the ICSU report: “…Full and open access” to data implies equitable, non-discriminatory access … Continue reading →

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Reply from softCon on Spectra and "open access"

Posted on July 27, 2007 by pm286

In recent posts Request for CODATA definition of Open Access– and http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=445 I was concerned about the use of “open access” to describe a pay-to-access database. I had a very useful and constructive reply from softCon about the “open access” database … Continue reading →

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Request for CODATA definition of Open Access

Posted on July 27, 2007 by pm286

Followup to http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=445 [Open letter, copied to http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=446] Dear Drs. Noelle and Hartmann, science-softCon Dr. Andreas Noelle Auf der Burg 4 D-63477 Maintal Germany Phone: +49(0)6181 498414 Fax: +49(0)6181 498415 E-Mail: andreas.noelle@science-softCon.de Internet: www.science-softCon.de UV/Vis Spectra Data Base SAG Dr. … Continue reading →

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Pay-to-view "open access" at CODATA?

Posted on July 26, 2007 by pm286

Here’s a puzzle – maybe someone can help. A member of the Blue Obelisk has discovered the following site science-softCon UV/Vis+ Spectra Data Base Spectral information (gas, liquid and solid phase from EUV-VUV-UV-Vis-NIR) and related data (e.g.  information concerning publications … Continue reading →

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Funders – please make sure what you are paying for

Posted on July 25, 2007 by pm286

The saddest thing about the HHMI-Elsevier deal is that HHMI didn’t appear to know what they were paying for or didn’t care. By doing less than due diligence they have moved the goalposts[1] in the wrong direction and made it … Continue reading →

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