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I was on the Staff at the University of Stirling (in Scotland) for 15 years so I am delighted to repost Peter Suber: Stirling U adopts an OA mandate: (Stirling research goes global, a press release from Stirling University, April … Continue reading →

I’m giving a talk to the UK Serials Group tomorrow and I would like to be able to show articles deposited in PMC under the new mandate. I have no idea whether any have arrived (or whether authors have being … Continue reading →

There have been a number of useful replies to my concern over text-mining the NIH. To resolve some of the confusion: NIH have ca 1,000,000 journal articles. These are NOT permissionFree Open Access. There is a limit on what you … Continue reading →

In response to my concern about access to the full text in PubmedCentral the Blog Suicyte Notes questions the value of text-mining: I cannot think of a single example where text-mining has ever made a major contribution to solving any … Continue reading →

There have been some very useful responses (see comments to Can I data- and Text-mine Pubmed Central? and followup) to my assertion that we may not text-mine the major part of the material to be deposited under the NIH mandate. … Continue reading →

I realised with considerable disappointment ( Can I data- and Text-mine Pubmed Central?) that I might not be able to text- and data-mine the material that the NIH has required to be deposited in Pubmed Central in its mandate. Now … Continue reading →

I mentioned I was acting as Egon Willighagen’s promoter here is his report of being awarded a doctorate: T plus 51 hours: a short photo impression I normally do not do these kinds of blog items, but, in reply to … Continue reading →

Andrew Walkingshaw has made an impressive movie on The geographic spread of crystallography I’d hoped to present this at OR08 in my plenary but the Mac movie technology defeated me/Jim/Vista. I think Jim Downing managed to show it later. What … Continue reading →

In a recent post with several valuable comments: Open Science in the Undergraduate Laboratory: Could this be the success story we’re looking for? Cameron Neylon brings together ideas on how undergraduates could do chemistry in parallel to explore a wide … Continue reading →