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This is the last post I shall make – on this blog – on this subject. Recent discussion has highlighted that this issue is much larger and much more critical than I thought even a few days ago. It is … Continue reading →

I was at the AGM of UK PubMedCentral last Monday and asked about the Open Access subset of PMC – those papers where authors/funders have paid large amounts of money to ensure their papers are “Open Access”. I asked about … Continue reading →

Writing this blog is sometimes boring because I have to cover the same matter time and again. That’s unfortunately because progress – in Open knowledge – is so excruciatingly slow in the scholarly community that what I wrote five years … Continue reading →

I have now learnt how to make videos which can be used to illustrate aspects of what I and others are doing and trying to do. The raw material is video footage, voiceovers, captions, slides, hyperlinks, etc. I’m not a … Continue reading →

In the last week I have discovered that I can make movies on my PC. [This is not an advertisement for Microsoft products]. But there is a tool in Office called Windows Live Movie Maker which: is reasonably easy to … Continue reading →

I am going to bore some readers by jabbering on relentlessly about why publishers should not use CC-NC. But every time you switch off it costs the academic community another few hundred million dollars. That will be cut from your … Continue reading →

A really important post on the OKF open-Science mailing list – start at: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/2011-December/001118.html Here Jenny Molloy posted: I cam[e] across this story on Nature news ( http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/12/could_crowd_sourcing_provide_t.html<http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/12/could_crowd_sourcing_provide_t.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+news%2Frss%2Fnewsblog+%28News+Blog+-+Blog+Posts%29&utm_content=Google+Reader > ). In an interesting combination of crowd sourcing and open data … Continue reading →

The JISC/SWAT4LS/OKF Hackathon starts on Tuesday in London. http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/london2011/ and see Jenny Molloy’s blog post: http://science.okfn.org/2011/11/09/open-research-reports-trailer/ Here are some of the stars: On the left is KosherFrog (alias @gfry, Alias Gilles Frydman). (We’ll create some better glasses for him). Here’s … Continue reading →

I have been alerted to a discussion in the letter pages of J. Chem. Inf. Modeling (an ACS Journal). I normally read the literature through a paywall window (my home machine has no privileges and so I get a “citizen-enhanced” … Continue reading →

There is a really important article at http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/2189/creative-commons-licenses-and-the-non-commercial-condition-implications-for-the-re-use-of-biodiversity-information. (Hagedorn G et al) [NOTE the OKF has a clear indication of the problems of CC-NC. They should add a link to Hagedorn. See my earlier blog post /pmr/2010/12/17/why-i-and-you-should-avoid-nc-licences/ ]. So, you … Continue reading →