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This post is primarily for the publicity-seeking animals to get their Serpentine presentation another plug. They have demanded to come, so we have created a big box for them which also doubles as a walled garden – cf Midsummer Night’s … Continue reading →

I am really impressed and excited by the creation of the Science Code Manifesto under the auspices of the Climate Code Foundation (see http://climatecode.org/blog/2011/10/science-code-manifesto/ ). I’ve had nothing directly to do with the formulation, other than being part of the … Continue reading →

Two messages yesterday – both on the harm (intended or unintended) of using the word “open”. It’s one of those cuddly, comfort-making, words like “healthy” or “green”. Unless it’s clear what it means , it means anything-you-like, so I use … Continue reading →

Do you ever donate to a medical charity? Or help run a charity shop? On the expectation that your funding will go to research aimed at curing or ameliorating disease?If so, much of the output will be primarily in scientific … Continue reading →

I am at a 2-day (closed) meeting at EBI on Chemical Registry systems and databases (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/industry/Workshops/workshops.html ). I can’t blog this as it’s a closed meeting. However as always I will try to set my own thoughts out. They are … Continue reading →

As I have blogged (/pmr/2011/10/04/a-fairy-story-for-the-serpentine-gallery-garden-marathon/ ) I am making a short presentation at the Serpentine Marathon next Sunday. I deliberately kept the details quiet, but now I can reveal that it is part of a session on “Walled Gardens”, run … Continue reading →

I’ve tried to access a publication outside the Cambridge university domain (i.e. pretending I am a Scholarly Poor. Here’s the screenshot In case you can’t read it, the text includes: Options for accessing this content: If you have access to … Continue reading →

Today’s focus on the harm done by closed scholarly publications is on patient groups – societies and communities of people affected by disease or working (usually voluntarily) on behalf of those. First let me dispose of one pernicious opinion which … Continue reading →

I am sure we all moan about governments and how difficult it is to find information and how they are filled with Sir Humphreys who want to fudge everything. But there’s a real spirirt of making public government data OPEN. … Continue reading →

In my (currently daily) review of the scholarly poor I am highlighting groups of people who have an important role in the world who need but do not have access to the scientific technical medical literature (STM). So far I … Continue reading →