Category Archives: open issues

Information Barter

Posted on November 17, 2006 by pm286

A comment to my post Negotiating Open Access – a mutual success resonates with me: # Rupak Chakravarty Says: November 17th, 2006 at 6:03 am e I believe, If we really want to knowledge driven open society, where business models … Continue reading →

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Could an Open chemistry journal fly?

Posted on November 12, 2006 by pm286

This post addresses the Closed world of chemistry publishing and offers some not very optimistic comments. I subscribe to the CHMINF-L list which serves the chemical information community. Much of the traffic is about specific (usually commercial) chemical information services … Continue reading →

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Negotiating Open Access – a mutual success

Posted on November 11, 2006 by pm286

I was recently invited to write a review for a closed access journal run by a commercial publisher. The subject of the article [in confidence] was dear to my heart and the journal is largely aimed at a community of … Continue reading →

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Org Prep Daily – Help! An Open Opportunity for Chemistry

Posted on November 11, 2006 by pm286

Milkshake runs a superb blog (Org Prep Daily) which does exactly what it says on the tin. Here is an example of a post (6-amino-4-chloro-2-methylpyrimidine). Take a look – you don’t have to be a chemist to get the idea … Continue reading →

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Pubchem and Thomson – two cheers

Posted on November 8, 2006 by pm286

Noted in Peter Suber’s Blog: Additional 2.2 Million Structures Now Searchable in Freely Available Database Thomson Scientific, … provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced the deposit of 2.2 million chemical structures from Thomson … Continue reading →

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"Open Data" on Wikipedia. Bloat and NOR?

Posted on November 7, 2006 by pm286

Latest report on the Open Data entry on Wikipedia – we are starting to get contributions. Remember always that WP is ours, not mine. And that it”s an encyclopedia, not a platform. This post is just to show how things … Continue reading →

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Open Electronic Theses – should be simple…

Posted on November 4, 2006 by pm286

Theses are one of the most concentrated and valuable ways that science is published. Yet they could be so much more valuable. There a a few hurdles to overcome… From Peter Suber’s blog: Effective today, the University of Tasmania will … Continue reading →

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"Open Data" Wikipedia NPOV, three revert, etc.

Posted on November 2, 2006 by pm286

The “Open Data” article on WP has already had useful attention from Wikipedians. Some minor typo corrections (and many WPians devote much energy to this, including developing bots). My reference numbering was a mess since I didn’t know WP had … Continue reading →

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Creating "Open Data" on Wikipedia

Posted on October 30, 2006 by pm286

In an earlier post I mentioned that I was going to start an article on “Open Data” on Wikipedia. This is a blow-by-blow account (a few technical details are omitted). Do not be afraid. (I used to be afraid, but … Continue reading →

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Do we really need discovery metadata?

Posted on October 26, 2006 by pm286

Many of the projects we are involved in and interact with are about systematising metadata for scientific and other scholarly applications. There are several sorts of MD; I include at least rights, provenance, semantics/format, and discovery. I’ll go along with … Continue reading →

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