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In previous posts (/pmr/2011/07/11/what%E2%80%99s-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-your-feedback-%E2%80%93-why-should-journals-exist/ and immediate backtracks) I have started to address the question of what is wrong with scholarly publishing. I haven’t actually established yet that there *is* anything wrong and I’ll do that in a day or two … Continue reading →

One of the features of blogging is that you get immediate feedback – some positive, some not. ALL feedback is welcomed and will be treated professionally. In conventional scholarly publication we are expected to assemble other relevant work, prior art, … Continue reading →

Yesterday I abandoned my coding to write about scientific publishing: /pmr/2011/07/09/what-is-wrong-with-scientific-publishing-and-can-we-put-it-right-before-it-is-too-late/ and I now have to continue in a hopefully logical, somewhat exploratory vein. I don’t have all the answers – I don’t even have all the questions – and … Continue reading →

I sat down today to write code and and found that I couldn’t – I had to write about science publishing, so here goes. I intend this will be the first of several posts. I often blog in forceful style … Continue reading →

Just heard that PLoS One was awarded Innovator of the Year by SPARC: http://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2011/06/30/plos-one-wins-recognition-as-a-sparc-innovator/ I applaud them personally as the 4 Pantonistas were given the same award last year for the Panton Principles. So Lezan, collaborators at NaCTEM and I … Continue reading →

I received the following unsolicited email (slightly curtailed) from the Royal Society of Chemistry: Dear Dr Murray Rust Quality is the focus at RSC Publishing: the recently published 2010 Journal Citation Reports ® prove that our quality is better than … Continue reading →

Four years ago [1] Open Access publishing was described by some members of the publishing community as “junk science”, the implication being that Open Access led inexorably to lower standards of (or even no) peer-review. I now assert that, from … Continue reading →

Last week Michael Gurstein attended OKCon2011 in Berlin and wrote a blogpost http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/are-the-open-data-warriors-fighting-for-robin-hood-or-the-sheriff-some-reflections-on-okcon-2011-and-the-emerging-data-divide/ which was critical of OKCon and/or OKF (not sure which). It upset some of my colleagues but frankly bewildered me – despite reading the debate on his … Continue reading →

As I blogged, we’ve just submitted 15 papers to the Journal of Cheminformatics – and we got them off last Tuesday. Here’s the evidence The ones at the bottom right are the invited talks – Cameron Neylon, Henry Rzepa, Dan … Continue reading →

  I’ve just come back from 4 wonderful days in Berlin at OKCon 2011. About 400 people in the historic Kalkscheune just off FriedrichStrasse. People of all ages, many cultures and countries – some “old hands” , many having their … Continue reading →