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Dictated and Scraped into Arcturus John Wilbanks is Director of Science Commons and a co-author of the Panton Principles. He has responded to my concerns about access to climate change data, with the observation that Open data is not the … Continue reading →

Typed and Scraped into Arcturus When I started to blog and mail about Climate Change/Research I knew I was blundering into areas that I knew little about and that I would discover a great deal of previous and current activity. … Continue reading →

Typed and Scraped into Arcturus Here’s an excellent example of the issues in Open Data. A simple, important, question from David Jones (who is involved in climate research infrastructure). It’s in response to my last post on Open data in … Continue reading →

Dictated and Scraped into Arcturus Yesterday evening I went to a discussion at the Royal Institution. I’ll first give the abstract of the occasion and then my motivation and conclusions. Please read what I write very carefully, because I am … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus I’m in Bath for a JISC meeting – the I2S2 meeting. All JISC meetings have acronyms – I2S2 stands for Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences and involves a number of experimentalists in finding the structure of … Continue reading →

Typed (because I am an the BL!) into Arcturus It was a wonderful occasion at BMC’s 10th birthday last night in the Gherkin (London’s iconic modern building). The party was on the very top – a circular pad with stunning … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus Today I, and the other authors of the Panton Principles, have been invited by Biomed Central to hand out the prizes which they have sponsored (with Microsoft) for the best papers that make data Open. As part … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus This is the first in a series of posts under the heading “reclaiming our scholarship”. I think we’re at a critical time in scholarly publishing when academia has the opportunity to reclaim the vast digital wealth that … Continue reading →

Typed and scraped Bethan Ruddock has already commented on this blog and is typical of the relatively few who are prepared to debate the future of libraries in public. It is always very encouraging to see young people speaking their … Continue reading →

Scraped and typed into Arcturus This is my FOI request to a number of Russell Group Universities about the introduction by the British Library of DRM for InterLibraryLoans . There are about 20 RG universities and I have already sent … Continue reading →