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I’m assuming we all believe that we need data repositories for science; that’s there are about 10 different reasons why (not all consistent); that many of us (including communities I am) in are starting to build them. So what should … Continue reading →

I have suggested (/pmr/2011/08/14/institutional-repositories-are-they-valuable-to-scientists/ ) that Institutional Repositories are not valuable for scientists.Chris Rusbridge who used to run the Digital Curation Centre has commented. I am replying here, rather than in the thread. My argument is that there is little … Continue reading →

I have had several comments to blog posts about publishing data. Since c omments are not very common I’m replying in a post rather than in thread. They generally raise important points which are general and I’m grateful for the … Continue reading →

I am going to explore aspects of “publishing data” in STM disciplines and probably run to several posts. This will specifically cover the “long-tail” rather than “big-science” (such as high-energy physics, satellite surveys, climate models, sky surveys, etc.). In big … Continue reading →

I have had time to reflect on http://www.repositoryfringe.org/ (the meeting of repositarians in Edinburgh) and having been recently concerned about the publishing of data (about which I shall post more later) I post my current analyses of the UK repository … Continue reading →

I normally only blog about science , scholarship and related matters on this blog and I am making an exception in this post. I feel a sense of wanting to help and while I have no solutions am open to … Continue reading →

[Warning – this blog contains praise and criticism of the chemistry publishing industry]. I’ve just been catching up on the chemical blogosphere by reading Chembark (http://blog.chembark.com/about/ ) This site is maintained by Paul Bracher. Paul is currently a National Science … Continue reading →

I normally don’t like blogging more than twice a day, but sometimes it’s inevitable. (People sometimes suggest I blog too much, but there is so much we have to change and such a short time that I take the risk). … Continue reading →

I’ve spent much of last week at the Repository Fringe in Edinburgh (see http://www.repositoryfringe.org/ which has a really excellent “live blog” – almost verbatim; also see #rfringe11 for tweets). It was an interesting event with the normal complete spectrum from … Continue reading →

I have been blogging for 3 weeks on the malaise in scholarly publishing. While doing this I have talked to a number of people and got some blog feedback. I think I am more worried and less sure than when … Continue reading →