just a quick post… I’m pretty shocked at the poor indexing service given by Thompson Reuters Web of Knowledge (or ISI Web of Science as you might know it). I’ve unashamedly bashed them before and I’ll bash them again here.
just a quick post… I’m pretty shocked at the poor indexing service given by Thompson Reuters Web of Knowledge (or ISI Web of Science as you might know it). I’ve unashamedly bashed them before and I’ll bash them again here.
I realise thus far, I may not have explained too clearly exactly what I’m doing for my Panton fellowship. With this post I shall attempt to remedy this and shed a little more light on what I’ve been doing lately.
After sending a letter to my local MP, urging him to support the recommendations of the Hargreaves Report on Intellectual Property reform in parliament nearly a month ago (sent on the 17th June 2012) – I finally have a reply! Sadly, it’s not the reply I wanted. Don Foster does not appear willing to support the Early Day Motion on Intellectual Property law reform to further enable research, that I explicitly asked him to sign.
Yesterday, I dragged myself out of bed (it was a Saturday!) to go to my first ever ‘hackathon’. Thankfully it was a lot less geeky than it sounds – just a cosy little get together of people interested in Open Science, to work on things in a shared public space. Nick Stenning, Stefan Wehrmeyer, Jenny Molloy, Caspar Addyman and I all beavering away on our laptops at the Barbican Centre, later joined by surprise guest Todd Vision (Dryad &
Response to Request for Information – FR Doc. 2011-28621 Dr Cameron Neylon – U.K. based research scientist writing in a personal capacity Introduction Thankyou for the opportunity to respond to this request for information and to the parallel RFI on access to scientific publications.
Im kommenden Jahr wird es eine neue Version der Creative Commons Public Licenses (CCPL), also der sechs Creative-Commons-Kernlizenzen geben (siehe Blog-Post auf creativecommons.org). Damit soll auf die Veränderungen des Netzes und seiner Protagonisten gegenüber dem Jahr 2007 reagiert werden, dem Geburtsjahr der aktuellen Version 3.0. Der Zeitabstand zwischen den Versionen hat sich jeweils rund verdoppelt.
I’m really pleased this new Open Access paper has just been published.
In diesem Wettbewerb stellt Wikimedia Deutschland ausgewählten Initiativen, die Freies Wissen fördern, erneut bis zu 5.000 Euro zur Verfügung. Einzelpersonen oder Gruppen können noch bis zum 17. November 2011 spannende Projektideen einreichen, für deren Umsetzung ihnen bisher die finanziellen Mittel fehlten.
Wann und unter welchen Bedingungen sind Bibliothekskataloge und ihre Daten urheberrechtlich geschützt? Wenn sie öffentlich zugänglich gemacht werden sollen, wann und wie ist das möglich? Ein neuer Leitfaden von iRights.info-Redakteur Till Kreutzer behandelt diese Fragen.
Our whistlestop summer conference tour circumnavigating the globe has come to a jetlagged end, with the final conference being last weeks HUPO (Human Proteomics Organisation) congress in Geneva.