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I hadn’t meant to post on the Bohannon/Sciencemag/AAAS  “sting”  (where journals were spoofed into accepting junk papers). Many others have done this (summarised by Graham Steel inter alia ). But then I learnt today there was to be a live … Continue reading →

Royal Society of Chemistry announces a new repository for the chemical sciences. I have been asked to comment (by an American Chemical Society organ) and will outline my thoughts below. This is important both for chemistry and more widely for … Continue reading →

I’ve already blogged about the LIBER meeting last week, but TDM is now a central part of my raison d’etre and there is going to be a lot on this blog. I’m close to announcing the first alpha release of … Continue reading →

Last week there was an important meeting run by LIBER, the association of Research Libraries in Europe. http://www.libereurope.eu/news/the-perfect-swell-a-workshop-on-text-and-data-mining-for-data-driven-innovation. To be quite clear, the meeting was held because (legacy, scholarly) publishers are spending large amounts of time, effort and money to … Continue reading →

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the draft of its report last week – http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/#.UkweFhDB_cg . It’s > 2100 pp and I have downloaded the whole lot and – with the help of my software – will read it. … Continue reading →

Listening to @Jay_Naidoo’s plenary on Wednesday at #okcon I had a revelation. What matters is Justice. Jay’s twitter describes him as  Chairman of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition(GAIN), former Minister in Mandela Cabinet, founding GS of COSATU and political … Continue reading →

My blogging comes in fits and start. I sometimes used to feel upset if I didn’t blog each day. But now I two major imperatives – to blog and to hack Liberation Software. And for the last few weeks the … Continue reading →

There’s been a minor Twitter storm caused by one of my tweets about MMOB and Elsevier’s Mendeley. Twitter is a poor medium for discussion (asynchronous and character-limited) and since I had intended to blog about these issues and this is … Continue reading →

Elsevier pointed me to their recent set of #openaccess journals. I have uncovered multiple serious problems in their labelling and access. Now I show that mislabelling and misimplementation could cost customers huge amounts of money. I will pretend I am … Continue reading →

Today I got a second substantive reply from Elsevier on the problems with their #openaccess labelling and access. The other issue you raise relates to the clarity of labelling of articles as open access, and the clarity of labelling the … Continue reading →