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Scraped and typed into Arcturus I have had thoughtful contributions from an academic and a publisher on my exploration of DRM. See http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2434&cpage=1#comment-454356 for comments by Henry Rzepa, and in particular his concern about publishers’ roles, to which Ricahrd Kidd … Continue reading →

Typed/scraped into Arcturus while waiting for Eclipse job to complete I have been doodling round the DRM + BL theme and suddenly found Bethan’s information professional blog . From the About: I’m a librarian, working for Library and Archival Services … Continue reading →

Scraped and typed into Arcturus This is my FOI request to the British Library about their introduction of DRM. Note that I shall be sending out a similar request to a number of leading UK academic libraries so that it … Continue reading →

Typed in support of a community that cares passionately into Arcturus Here’s an excellent example of a community that is racing towards mandating data deposition as part of publication. And to give credit where it’s due it’s reported by an … Continue reading →

Typed in support of a community that cares passionately into Arcturus I recently blogged about how a community wanted access to raw experimental data: http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2424 They begged the authors, database, publishers, etc. to ensure that data was published as soon … Continue reading →

Scraped into Arcturus in an attempt to energize the community I reproduce in full a recent helpful comment on this blog and then comment. Stuart Bentley says: May 21, 2010 at 11:45 am Whilst I don’t disagree with the spirit … Continue reading →

Typed in support of a community that cares passionately into Arcturus I’ve spent two days this week at a useful meeting run by JISC (Simon Hodson) on Managing Research Data. As readers of this blog know I am a passionately … Continue reading →

Scraped with appreciation from OKF blog into Arcturus I am delighted to record the first 1.0 release of CKAN, the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive from the Open Knowledge Foundation. This is, of course, a communal work but much of the credit … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus I am giving a talk in the Biochemistry Department (at Cambridge) this morning (1015) and here is a brief outline of some of the topics I might cover. As always I don’t know what I shall say … Continue reading →

Typed and scraped with a heavy heart into Arcturus I’m still putting together my FOI request to the British Library. My concern is that DRM is deeply damaging, and that when done by a National library it is almost catastrophic. … Continue reading →