Category Archives: open issues

Build your own Institutional Repository

Posted on October 26, 2006 by pm286

I have alluded to Institutional Repositories (IR) before. Although I am an enthusiast and early adopter (having reposited 250, 000 digital objects) a year ago I would have said they were still a minority activity. Not now. Universities and related … Continue reading →

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Open Map Data?

Posted on October 26, 2006 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s Blog: Mike Cross, Ordnance Survey in the dock again, The Guardian, October 26, 2006. Excerpt: On one side of an electoral boundary, people might buy sun-blushed tomatoes; on the other, economy baked beans. Retailers like to know … Continue reading →

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Commons in the pharma industry?

Posted on October 26, 2006 by pm286

I was excited to see the following in Peter Suber’s Open Access Blog: var imagebase=’file://C:/Program Files/FeedReader30/’; Pfizer explores data sharing with Science Commons 17:54 24/10/2006, Peter Suber, Open Access News Pfizer is exploring data sharing with Science Commons. There are … Continue reading →

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Rich Apodaca: Closed Chemical Publishing and Disruptive Technology

Posted on October 26, 2006 by pm286

Rich Apodaca, a founder member of the Blue Obelisk, has a thoughtful blog, DepthFirst. Besides the interesting stuff on programming – especially Ruby – there are useful injections from outside chemistry and IT. Here’s one: The Directory of Open Access … Continue reading →

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Silicos contributes Commercial Open Source – thank you

Posted on October 25, 2006 by pm286

It is very uncommon for commercial organizations in chemoinformatics to make any of their material Open Source. (Unlike the contributions of many IT companies – e.g. Eclipse, Netbeans, etc.) So I was very pleased to see an announcement of open … Continue reading →

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Presentation to Open Scholarship 2006

Posted on October 20, 2006 by pm286

I am presenting this “talk” from the Web and including parts of my blog. This means I have to decide what I think I am going to say before I do or don’t say it. You know by now what … Continue reading →

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Is "peer-review" holding back innovation?

Posted on October 20, 2006 by pm286

As part of my talk at Open Scholarship I’m going to show two pieces of scholarly work of which I am proud, which I believe fit all the criteria of publication and for which I get no formal credit. (I … Continue reading →

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Open Scholarship 2006 – 2

Posted on October 20, 2006 by pm286

My colleague and DSpace superguru Jim Downing has also blogged parts of the meeting: These are some impressions of the Open Scholarship meeting so far… Some are notes, so it may be a bit jerky in places. I shan’t blog … Continue reading →

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Open Scholarship 2006 – 1

Posted on October 20, 2006 by pm286

I’m at the University of Glasgow – in the splendid castellated Hunter Halls – for the European meeting on Open Scholarship. There are over 200 delegates – a mixture of librarians, information technologists, research funders, etc. Hardly any publishers – … Continue reading →

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The mystery unfolded – the molecules have been (and can be) found

Posted on October 14, 2006 by pm286

I think this was delayed by WordPress.) Jean-Claude and his students cracked a bit of it. Egon has explained it fully and provided the motivation… Egon Says: October 14th, 2006 at 7:55 pm eI have not been able to track … Continue reading →

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