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A wonderful launch of Cambridge Open Science / research at the Panton last night. 14 people came which is a wonderful number – enough to get a sense of critical mass. Lovely warm fire, comfy sofas, British beer, projector, screen, … Continue reading →

  If you found someone writing software which di some of the same sort of things that your software did would you be pleased or upset? If you’re an academic in the modern world you might wellb be upset. “Bugger, … Continue reading →

In about 15 hours from now there will be a thunderclap: https://www.thunderclap.it/en/projects/5675-open-access-button-launch Joe and David – two medical students are ANGRY. They’re angry that paywalls to the medical literature still exist. That they can’t read the medical literature that they … Continue reading →

We’re meeting tomorrow at the Panton Arms Cambridge for the first public Open Science/Research OKFN meetup, organised by Keren Limor. (Four of us met at Keren’s house a month ago to plan it). http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-open-research-tickets-8650372497 The Panton Arms is the second … Continue reading →

Until this week I and other scholars had been generally forbidden to use machines to read the scientific literature and extract facts (“Text and Data Mining”, TDM or “Content-mining”). The STM publishers had prepared a draft licence which can be … Continue reading →

Can Felix and AMI index Lucy’s repo? YES!     At UKSG (which I’ll blog later) I talked about repositories and said that without indexing they were of little value. So #animalgarden were excited to get a tweet from   … Continue reading →

In my presentation to the @UKSG tomorrow I shall argue that the scholarly literature is a vast untapped source of high quality data and can supplant traditional expensive, human abstracting services. The organizers asked me not to present vapourware (which … Continue reading →

We’re now well under way with The Content Mine – a project to extract 100 million facts from the scholarly literature (mainly journals). Here’s how it will work , (also see neighbouring blog posts posts and the video (https://vimeo.com/78353557 , … Continue reading →

I’ve been invited to talk to the UK Serials group. (“Serials” == journals for most people). http://www.uksg.org/event/NOVCONF2013. “Open Access Realities:global experiences of implementing OA”. Here’s the programme: 10.10  Welcome and introduction by the Chair Charlie Rapple, Associate Director, TBI Communications … Continue reading →

A massively valuable meeting at #solo13. I’ve told you how we are going to extract 100 million facts from the scientific literature. That’s an act of faith and we have to start building the reality. We’ve got to work out: … Continue reading →