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Author Archives: Mark MacGillivray
JISC Discovery 2012
Today (11th jan 2012) I am attending the JISC Discovery 2012 meeting to learn about the JISC projects aiming to increase open access to research materials. Here are some notes I took during the day: Joy Palmer – Mimas – … Continue reading
Informing public access to peer reviewed scholarly publications and data resulting from publicly funded research
The US government (OSTP) has recently issued an RFI on Open Access to data resulting from publicly funded research. The deadline for responding to the RFI has been extended to January 12. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/21/extended-deadline-public-access-and-digital-data-rfis Detailed responses are openly available for collaborative … Continue reading
What is BibServer? What happened to Bibliographica?
Time for another clarification on what work we are doing, and what various different acronyms mean. BibServer BibServer is the software we are now working on; the aim of it is to provide a tool that enables individuals and small … Continue reading
International Digital Curation Conference
Last week I attended the International Digital Curation Conference. It was very interesting to see many people from institutes across the world talking about how to manage and share all sorts of research data; from attempts to use institutional repository … Continue reading
JISC Open Bibliography 2
JISC have put some extra funding in to continue work on Open Bibliography; hooray! We are continuing along the open biblio collections theme from last year, but will now be focussing on ensuring individuals and small groups can do something … Continue reading
Animal Garden – open science issues
Peter and Tom Murray-Rust put together a presentation called Animal Garden, which we have now converted to a prezi for nice swooshy embedding-ness in web pages. This prezi tells the story of some teddybear scientists who try to share their … Continue reading
(Slightly) wider exposure of the costs of academic publishing
An article in the Guardian yesterday: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist brings up the profit margins of academic publishers. I found one line particularly interesting: This is a tax on education, a stifling of the public mind. It appears to contravene the universal declaration … Continue reading
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openbiblio, bibliographica, bibsoup, bibserver – what’s what?
We have (or had) various projects going on in relation to the OKF open bibliographic working group recently, and it seems like it might be a good idea to clarify what names mean what things mean where… So here is … Continue reading
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After JISC Open Bibliography
The JISC Open Bibliography project has come to an end, but of course the Open Bibliography community remains. We will no longer have regular JISC Open Bib meetings, but I would hope that those involved will continue to engage with … Continue reading
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Final Product Post: Open Bibliography
Bibliographic data has long been understood to contain important information about the large scale structure of scientific disciplines, the influence and impact of various authors and journals. Instead of a relatively small number of privileged data owners being able to … Continue reading
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