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I have suggested that we can and should create Linked Open Repositories (/pmr/2011/08/04/linked-open-repositories/ ) and that it might take a week. I expected this timescale to be challenged and that I would be seriously wrong. I was. Dan, who was … Continue reading →

At http://www.repositoryfringe.org/ we have a competition – run by JISC/Mahendra_Mahey. It’s primarily for hackers and they were hard at work last night, even forgoing the delights of the Edinburgh Fringe (to which the M-R clan succumbed instead). But one category … Continue reading →

I’m at the JISC repo fringe (#rfringe11) in Edinburgh (If you want to follow it the live blog is great: http://www.repositoryfringe.org/ ). I was really excited to meet Mark Hahnel today – the creator of Figshare (http://figshare.com/ ). Mark is … Continue reading →

I have just been at a wonderful conference in Canyons, Utah “Accelerating discovery: Human-computer symbiosis 50 years on” (https://sites.google.com/site/licklider50/ ). This drew from Lick’s vision – 50 years ago – of machines and humans interacting in a symbiosis to help … Continue reading →

The following appeared on noticeboards in the Chemistry Department – the Panton Arms [1] is just 200 metres away   Maybe some reader of this blog can help… But the real message is that Data Management Plans are most valuable … Continue reading →

I have already blogged about the Aaron Swartz case and civil disobedience /pmr/2011/07/20/the-ethics-of-%E2%80%9Cstealing%E2%80%9D-scientific-articles-and-civil-disobedience/ . I expect to blog more as the case unfolds (assuming it is carried through) but this post id to clarify what I think are the prerequisites … Continue reading →

In a reply to my exposition of Green, Gold, Gratis and Libre, Steve Hitchcock comments:   Steve Hitchcock says: July 20, 2011 at 5:03 pm   Peter, In this blog post you say “Modern e-science requires documents over which the reader/user … Continue reading →

I have been alerted to the following article in the Boston Globe about a Cambridge[Mass] Man who has been accused of “stealing” 4 million scientific articles. http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/07/cambridge-man-accused-hacking-mit-computers-steal-scientific-papers/6SVnqu3Yfo7OIrLQOYSz5M/index.html?comments=all#readerComm A Cambridge man [Swartz] who was a fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. … Continue reading →

I have just been reading Peter Suber’s latest SOAN http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/articles/oanewsletter-oa-and-copyright.shtml (a monthly Open Access news ) and also his interview with Richard Poynder (short version http://poynder.blogspot.com/2011/07/peter-suber-leader-of-leaderless.html contains pointers to full version). PeterS is, for many of us, the person who … Continue reading →

Here’s a comment from a blog some days ago which is so compelling I reproduce it in full. It needs little comment from me. Nuwan says: July 18, 2011 at 5:40 pm  I think scientific publications are a victim of … Continue reading →