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#oaweek [This is a short post as I am testing whether I can post from my guest room (I probably can’t blog from the main lab)]. I shall explore this theme, probably getting even more angrier that I am. We … Continue reading →

#oss2011 I have a brief window in SFO – I love airports with free wifi The OSS was mindblowing. The advances since last year are spectacular. Simply put: OSS has arrived and will – I am sure – be mainstream … Continue reading →

#oss2011 Yesterday I made the assertion: “Closed access means people die” I have no doubt this is absolutely true. I put it in the negative form because I want to drive home the inequity of walling information that, if released, … Continue reading →

#oss2011 Jenny Molloy and I have been representing the Open Knowledge Foundation at the Open Science Summit and we presented the Open Research Reports (ORR) project. The slides we used are at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6280676/orr.pptx. I expect that at some stage we’ll … Continue reading →

#oss2011 Jenny Molloy and I are representing the Open Knowledge Foundation at Open Science Summit in the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, Silicon valley(haven’t had time to look at ANY of the museum!). It’s a fantastic meeting, run by Joseph … Continue reading →

Yesterday I posted an analysis (/pmr/2011/10/21/open-access-works-articles-matter-not-journals/ ) of the accesses to the papers from our special symposium (“Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future). In it I claimed that it no longer matters where you publish but what you publish. It … Continue reading →

As part of our Open Biblio project Jim and I were looking for lists of journal references to turn in BibJSON. I thought that I’d take some of our article listing from “Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future” (http://www.jcheminf.com/series/semantic_mol_future ) … Continue reading →

I am spending 4 wonderful days working at Berkeley with Jim Pitman on Open Bibliography and BibJSON having met Jim and Karen Coyle IRL for the first time. Bibliography? Boring… No. Bibliography is the Map Of Scholarship. It tells us … Continue reading →

We’ve finished our session on Walled Gardens at the Serpentine Gallery Marathon – great fun (and a lovely day)     Here’s the human team: L-R PM-R, David Rowan (who brought this together), Emer Coleman David gave a powerful presentation … Continue reading →

I am delighted to say that the special issue of the PM-R symposium (Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future in January) has now been published by Biomed Central in J. Cheminformatics (http://www.jcheminf.com/ ). There’s fifteen papers and I hope that … Continue reading →