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The last two days I have had a wonderful, if exhausting time at SpotOn (known in the past as Science Blogging and Science Online). Ross and I were organising a session called “What the hack?!” about running science hackdays. Sophie … Continue reading →

I should have blogged this earlier … Today 2013-11-08:1030-1130 UTC Ross Mounce and I are running a 1-hour session “What the hack?! Science Hackdays” at SpotOn 2013. SpotOn has been running for ?6 years and used to be called variously … Continue reading →

The second half of the Shuttleworth application asks how you are going to make it happen. Here’s my proposal. But if I am successful, I know that the Foundation and its fellows will be able to give advice and mentoring … Continue reading →

The Shuttleworth process asks applicants to answer four questions. “Please think about how your idea relates to technology, knowledge and learning and how your idea relates to openness when answering each section.   Describe the world as it is. (A … Continue reading →

The next few posts (possibly interspersed with other issues) will contain full details of my application for a Shuttleworth fellowship. Here I present my argument/manifesto [see below] for why we need action and why I can address it. And first … Continue reading →

In the last 2 weeks everything has come together and convinced me that the old era of scholarly publishing is on the verge of collapse. The new ideas of web-based community, of freedom and democracy, and of semantics are irresistible. … Continue reading →

I wrote an hour-long post and WordPress has destroyed the whole lot.

In the last post I highlighted success of the Open Access initative and culture over the 10 years since BOAI. This post highlights a fundamental problem of scholarly publishing and the “market”. Please criticize me – lack of criticism is … Continue reading →

My previous post outlined some of the differences between #openaccess and other Open initiatives and was, by implication, somewhat critical. In this post I’ll list some of the things that are successes or going well for #openaccess. In the next … Continue reading →

[This is probably the first of several posts] This is OpenAccess Week #oaweek #oaw13 and I generally try to post something to give a perspective. It’s 10 years since the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) which I thought was a … Continue reading →