Category Archives: open issues

SPECTRa – we've been blogged!

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

It’s rather gratifying when someone else reports our own work, nn this case Chemistry Central blog. They have picked up our 18-month project with Imperial and this substantial summary saves us the work of creating our own: The findings of … Continue reading →

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Voyages into publisher copyright – End of course exam

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

In the last 4 posts we have seen several varieties of Open Access (or Free Access) (or Hidden Access) or Fuzzy Access. Now it’s time to see how well you have been following these tutorials. So we have picked yet … Continue reading →

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Voyages into publisher copyright – Less than full Open Access and less than Free

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

Continuing our exploration of Open Access – let’s stick with chemistry (after all I don’t know about anything else). Last year the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced: ACS Offers Open-Access Option To Authors Sophie Rovner In October [2006], American Chemical … Continue reading →

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Voyages into publisher copyright – Full Open Access.

Posted on July 10, 2007 by pm286

Some readers may wonder why I am spending energy and words on Open Access to publishers’ sites when I can simply read the papers they have listed as OA. Surely that’s all that matters? Well, no. I’m a scientist and … Continue reading →

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Springer – I resign from your Journal

Posted on July 8, 2007 by pm286

Till today I was a member of the editorial board of Journal of Molecular Modeling · Computational Chemistry – Life Sciences – Advanced Materials – New Methods – published by Springer. It wasn’t very onerous – I occasionally got a … Continue reading →

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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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Is Citation Extortion practised?

Posted on July 6, 2007 by pm286

At ETD2007 one of the delegates related and experience with a publisher – I never got the details. She had submitted a manuscript and been told by the publisher (or editor) that it would not be published unless she included … Continue reading →

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The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) – Open Knowledge Foundation

Posted on July 5, 2007 by pm286

Rufus Pollock is a tireless campaigner for Openness. He is a graduate student at Cambridge – “writing up”, but still with enormous energy for other activities in the area of Openness. He is a highly competent hacker – and promotes … Continue reading →

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FINO – Free is Not Open

Posted on July 4, 2007 by pm286

Bill Hooker of Open Reading Frame has yet again and very clearly expounded the difference between Free and Open. FINO = Free is Not Open What follows may look like the same old arguments. It isn’t! The difference is that … Continue reading →

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Open Reading Mashup – would it work for chemistry?

Posted on July 1, 2007 by pm286

Bill Hooker – a staunch supporter and campaigner for Open Data – has published his first mashup. He queries whether it actually is one – and I tend to agree – but the effect is to bring together different sources … Continue reading →

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