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CAS Discourages Using SciFinder to Help Curate Wikipedia

Posted on March 7, 2008 by pm286

Antony Williams (Chemspiderman) is actively involved in creating Open chemistry. Here he reveals the limitations imposed by the American Chemical Society on creating Open data. CAS Discourages Using SciFinder to Help Curate Wikipedia Structures and CAS Numbers Posted by: Antony … Continue reading →

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What does "Open" mean in Open Repositories?

Posted on March 7, 2008 by pm286

Continuing the discussion on this blog Robin Rice Says: March 6th, 2008 at 3:08 pm eThanks for the response to my comments, Peter. Of course you’ve got a lot of issues in there, and I look forward to hearing the … Continue reading →

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Acta Crystallographica E is Open Access

Posted on March 6, 2008 by pm286

We work closely with the  IUCr – International Union of Crystallography – one of the scientific unions (see International Council for Science) that has done much to develop new approaches to publication. The IUCr publishes a wide range of journals … Continue reading →

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Should Data Repositories be Open?

Posted on March 6, 2008 by pm286

In a comment to my last post (OR08 abstract) … Robin Rice Says: March 5th, 2008 at 4:51 pm eHi Peter, I’ve a question. What happened to the impetus for open data in this abstract? This looks like a useful … Continue reading →

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Thank you to hosts in Australia

Posted on March 4, 2008 by pm286

Just got back from a fantastic 3.5 weeks in Australia where so many people looked after us so well. I’m more or less gutted (ended up with 7 presentations, all somewhat different, and a lot of discussions). It’s really helped … Continue reading →

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Repositories for Scientific Data (at OR08)

Posted on March 4, 2008 by pm286

I am honoured to have been asked by Liz Lyon and Les Carr to give the opening keynote at Open Repositories 2008 at Southampton. In our group we have been very actively trying to work out what repositories in lab … Continue reading →

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Make Openness part of the process

Posted on March 2, 2008 by pm286

From Open Access News: UAuckland to embed CC metadata for theses in its IR 03:43 01/03/2008, Gavin Baker, Open Access News Michelle Thorne, University of Auckland embeds CC licensing, Creative Commons blog, February 28, 2008. The University of Auckland has … Continue reading →

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Proteopedia and BIOMOO at the Weizmann Institute

Posted on March 1, 2008 by pm286

I was delighted to receive the following letter, with support from Joel Sussman… Hi Dr. Murray-Rust, I’m a student in Joel Sussman’s lab at the Weizmann Insitute of Science. Joel, Jaime Prilusky and I have developed Proteopedia, a new online … Continue reading →

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Robert Massie on OA and PMR

Posted on February 27, 2008 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s Open Access Blog: Robert Massie on OA 15:39 26/02/2008, Peter Suber, Open Access News InfoInnovation has blogged some notes on Robert Massie’s talk at the NFAIS Annual Conference (Philadelphia, February 24-26, 2008). Massie is the president of … Continue reading →

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Australian update

Posted on February 26, 2008 by pm286

Very brief. Had an excellent time in South Australia hosted by Philip Lock. Presented to Computer Science Department at UNISA and developed more ideas in “can machines understand chemistry”. A lot of synergy in discussion over XML, RDF, etc. Then … Continue reading →

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