Category Archives: open issues

US Voters: time to lobby Congress on OA again

Posted on November 13, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Suber: Bush vetoes LHHS appropriations bill The headline says it all, but here’s some detail from Jennifer Loven for the Associated Press: President Bush, escalating his budget battle with Congress, on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health … Continue reading →

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Repository depositions – what scales? A simple idea

Posted on November 13, 2007 by pm286

One of the problems of repositories at present is that everything is new. And much of it is complex. And some changes rapidly. So here is a simple idea, motivated by Dorothea’s reply to a post of mine… Dorothea Salo … Continue reading →

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Can I reposit my article?

Posted on November 12, 2007 by pm286

Having re-explored the access to articles in the Journal Of Molecular Modeling I thought I would see if I am allowed to reposit my article in the Cambridge DSpace. So while the sun is shining here’s a small pictorial journey… … Continue reading →

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Green Gold Hybrid

Posted on November 11, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber reports Jan Velterop’s comments on the Green version of Open Access: More on JAM about the NIH policy (Jan Velterop, JAM tomorrow) The Parachute, November 9, 2007: JV: Applied to OA, ‘green’ and ‘gold’ are qualifiers of a … Continue reading →

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Open Data for common molecules?

Posted on November 10, 2007 by pm286

Yesterday I needed the measured (i.e. not predicted) mass density for 2-bromo-propanoyl-bromide (CH3-CH(Br)C(=O)Br). This is a moderately common reagent and so I went to look for it on the Web – ultimately finding it on several sites. The value is … Continue reading →

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Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now

Posted on November 8, 2007 by pm286

Rufus Pollock (OKFN) expresses a common sentiment Give Us the Data Raw, and Give it to Us Now One thing I find remarkable about many data projects is how much effort goes into developing a shiny front-end for the material. … Continue reading →

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Students and the Scholarly revolution

Posted on November 8, 2007 by pm286

Gavin Baker, Student activism: How students use the scholarly communication system, College & Research Libraries News, November 10, 2007. (Peter Suber’s excerpt) Faculty aren’t the only users of the scholarly communication system. Students also depend on it for their education, … Continue reading →

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Open Data and Moral Rights

Posted on November 8, 2007 by pm286

Kaitlin Thaney, Project Manager, Science Commons pointed me to her colleague’s post on moral rights. “Our legal counsel, Thinh Nguyen has just posted a bit on the relationship between and issues regarding CC licenses, OA and moral rights. Worth a … Continue reading →

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Open NMR: Nick Day's "final" results

Posted on November 7, 2007 by pm286

Nick has more-or-less finished the computational NMR work on compounds from NMRShiftDB and we are exposing as much of the work as technically possible. Here is his interim report, some of which I trailed yesterday. The theoretical calculation (rmpw1pw91/6-31g(d,p)) involves: … Continue reading →

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Open Learn

Posted on November 6, 2007 by pm286

From the Open Knowledge Foundation blog Open Learn 2007 19:03 05/11/2007, jwyg, events, external, metadata, musings, Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog Last week I [?Jonathan Gray?] went to the OpenLearn 2007 conference hosted at the Open University. A lot was packed … Continue reading →

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