Category Archives: publishing

APE2008 more thoughts

Posted on January 30, 2008 by pm286

Because there was no electricity and wireless at the APE meeting ( APE 2008) I took some notes, but they seem rather dry now and have lost some of the immediacy. So I shall use the meeting to catalyze some … Continue reading →

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APE2008 – Heuer, CERN

Posted on January 25, 2008 by pm286

APE (Academic Publishing in Europe)  was a stimulating meeting, but I wasn’t able to blog any of it as (a) there wasn’t any wireless and (b) there wasn’t any electricity (we were in the Berlin–Brandenburg. Academy of Sciences, which made … Continue reading →

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APE 2008

Posted on January 20, 2008 by pm286

I’m off the the APE meeting in Berlin: APE 2008 “Quality and Publishing”, which asks some questions: What do we really know about publishing? Is ‘Open Access’ a never ending story? Will there be a battle between for-profit and non-for-profit … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 18, 2008 by pm286

From Peter Suber  More on the NIH OA mandate. Many points but I pick one:   Jocelyn Kaiser, Uncle Sam’s Biomedical Archive Wants Your Papers, Science Magazine, January 18, 2008 (accessible only to subscribers).  Excerpt: If you have a grant … Continue reading →

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Science 2.0

Posted on January 18, 2008 by pm286

Bill Hooker points to an initiative by Scientific American to help collaborative science. Mitch Waldrop on Science 2.0 I’m way behind on this, but anyway: a while back, writer Mitch Waldrop interviewed me and a whole bunch of other people … Continue reading →

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Open Data in Science

Posted on January 6, 2008 by pm286

I have been invited to write an article for Elsevier’s Serials Review and mentioned it in an earlier post (Open Data: Datument submitted to Elsevier’s Serials Review). I had hoped to post the manuscript immediately afterward but (a) our DSpace … Continue reading →

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Why publishers' technology is obsolete – I

Posted on January 6, 2008 by pm286

I have just finished writing an article for a journal – and I suspect the comments apply to all publishers. To create the Citations (or “references”) they require: CITATIONS Citations should be double-spaced at the end of the text, with … Continue reading →

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Why PubMed is so important in the NIH mandate – cont.

Posted on January 5, 2008 by pm286

In Why PubMed is so important in the NIH mandate  – which got sent off prematurely – I started to show why the NIH/PubMed relationship was so important. To pick up… The difference between PubMed and almost all other repositories … Continue reading →

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Do the Royal Society of Chemistry and Wiley care about my moral rights?

Posted on January 5, 2008 by pm286

In a previous post I asked Did I write this paper??? because I had come across something like this: (click to enlarge). Take a long hard look and tell me what is the journal, and who is the publisher. Note … Continue reading →

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Open Data: Datument submitted to Elsevier's Serials Review

Posted on January 5, 2008 by pm286

I have just finished writing an invited article for Serials Review – Elsevier (I’m making an exception and submitting to a closed access publisher because (a) this is a special issue – from the invitation from Connie Foster *Serials Review* … Continue reading →

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