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Bill Hooker
www.sennoma.net; cwhooker AT fastmail DOT fm
Retrovirology | Full text | Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics? - http://www.retrovirology.com/content...
Inventing a Better Patent System - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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"...Congress [should] add five amendments to existing statutes that would improve the processing of patents, reduce lawsuits and speed up the arrival of innovations on the market."
- Bill Hooker
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Useful Chemistry: Mel Reichman's Drug Discovery Talk - http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2009...
Tags: highthroughputscreening Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
The Law of Unintended Consequences - September 19, 2005 - http://money.cnn.com/magazin...
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- Bill Hooker
Data Sculptures by Willem Besselink | Brain Pickings - http://www.brainpickings.org/index...
Tags: datavisualization Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
An Entirely Other Day: Birdhouse For Your Soul - http://www.eod.com/blog...
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Tags: cool Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
earworm arrrggghhh
- Christina Pikas
JCR 2008 Update -- can you say "pay for play", boys and girls? - http://beckerinfo.net/scp...
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"Each year, Thomson Reuters receives feedback from publishers after publication of the annual Journal Citation Reports in June. This feedback is carefully and systematically reviewed. As a result, selected JCR data may be modified and adjustments made to metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor. A re-evaluation of 2008 JCR data has been completed, and changes have been made to 55 journals."
- Bill Hooker
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Unlocking the Cloud Means Open Data - http://ostatic.com/blog...
Mr. Gunn and Jean-Claude Bradley liked this
pq - "If the data obtained via crawlers and APIs can be used, only then does the lock-in of data go away. And, of course, the ideal foundation for such software is open source -- allowing users to publish and subscribe to information with as many data standards as possible. Some of these good fellows really exist". So the desire and necessity of gaining back control over data, or, as we Trekkies here dubbed it “Command your Data” is what will evolve the power of the open source idea into the cloud.
- Graham Steel
FeedZero.com - bayesian filtering for RSS feeds - http://www.feedzero.com/Home...
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Tags: webtools Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
Worth noting I guess that someone who probably knows what he's talking about (but who also has some conflicts of interest, so they asked to not be named) said they kicked the tires and weren't impressed.
- Mr. Gunn
Patterns of information use and exchange: case studies of researchers in the life sciences | Research Information Network - http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-wor...
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This report by the British Library and the Research Information Network (RIN) provides a unique insight into how information is used by researchers across life sciences. Undertaken by the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the UK Digital Curation Centre and the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services, the report concludes that ‘one-size-fits-all’ information and data sharing policies are not achieving scientifically productive and cost-efficient information use in life sciences. The report was developed using an innovative approach to capture the day-to-day patterns of information use in seven research teams from a wide range of disciplines, from botany to clinical neuroscience. The study undertaken over 11 months and involving 56 participants found that there is a significant gap between how researchers behave and the policies and strategies of funders and service providers. This suggests that the attempts to implement such...
- Bill Hooker
Philosophers' Playground: The Year of Living Humorously: A Stand-Up Philosopher's Pilgrimage - Part VII - http://philosophersplayground....
Tags: lostart Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
Zzzoot: The Future of Science: Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse - http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009...
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"For those who want to take a glimpse at where science and scientific discourse are going, take a look at some of the papers at this workshop"
- Bill Hooker
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several of the links are broken - this is the correct link to the Mons slides http://esw.w3.org/topic...
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Distributed Science, Part 2 : Common Knowledge - http://scienceblogs.com/commonk...
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Tags: lostart Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
CureHunter | Semantic Health Search - http://www.curehunter.com/public...
Tags: search oaos.tools oa Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
If It's Hip, It's Here: India's House With Balls. A Modern Residence & Fish Farm. - http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2009...
Tags: design concrete Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
Marten Elder - http://www.martenelder.com/photogr...
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- Bill Hooker
Matrix Analysis (SPARC) - http://www.arl.org/sparc...
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Tags: oa.waivers oa.money Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
eCAT - The world's first online electronic lab notebook (ELN) from Axiope - http://www.axiope.com/electro...
Way too expensive imo.
- Bill Hooker
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What is the (Real) Cost of Open Access? - A Computer Scientist in a Business School - http://behind-the-enemy-lines....
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Tags: lostart Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
miscellaneous factZ - The online home of Rufus Pollock » Blog Archive » Open Notebook Social Science - http://www.rufuspollock.org/2009...
"The other day I posted up some work-in-progress on the subject of patterns of knowledge production. That material is still in a fairly preliminary state. However, my decision to release it it in this form was a conscious decision and part of an ongoing attempt on my part to practice a more open “release early, release often” approach to research. In doing this I’m drawing direct inspiration from the open source and open notebook (science) communities and seeking to engage in what might be termed open notebook social science!" Tags: oaos.examples Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science? : Common Knowledge - http://scienceblogs.com/commonk...
Tags: johnwilbanks oaos.misc Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
DeepDyve - iTunes for journal articles? - http://www.deepdyve.com/corp...
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"Rent" overnight or longer access to TA articles for $0.99; no download, viewable only on DeepDyve site. Kinda odd to see PLoS papers in there since they're free anyway...
- Bill Hooker
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doesn't itunes let you keep the song forever? and have finally removed DRM
- Mike Chelen
Yeah, iTunes is a bad analogy, it was just the first thing that came to mind.
- Bill Hooker
it could be useful to read the whole article for $1 even if you end up buying a $20 permanent copy
- Mike Chelen
"Guerrilla OA" done right. - http://www.sennoma.net/main...
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"Elsevier: just another greedy bottom-feeder, or SPAWN OF SATAN????"
- Bill Hooker
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- Graham Steel
Bill, did I ever tell you that your "I wouldn't give them the steam off my ****" comment made it into a strategy discussion session as a conversation point at the big E?
- Cameron Neylon
Bill: SPARC has some of the items you mention -- certainly the cards -- and I just bet if you presented this idea to them, they'd bite. I hereby volunteer to staff the OA booth at any conference I'm going to!
- D0r0th34
for what it is worth - I still wear my PLoS ONE T-shirt once a week :)
- Jean-Claude Bradley
This subject came during an interview I gave a month afterwards, blog post here with the MP3 http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2008... (section 18:38 to 25:45) SPARC comes up at the end of that section and thanks to this post & discussion, I must contact them again !
- Graham Steel
Cameron -- no, you never mentioned that... do I need to go into witness protection now? :-)
- Bill Hooker
*imagines the Elseviley Verlag mafia* *shudders*
- D0r0th34
Hmmm. After many years of avoiding the damn things, I'm being sent to a discipline-specific conference next March... will have to clear the OA activism with the boss though since I'm on the company dime.
- Bill Hooker
Based upon my own experience, def. worth clearing with "the boss" beforehand, Bill. That was the *only* lesson that I learned from this. In my case, I got a 'mild-slap' for not announcing what I intended to do but that said, I didn't know what I was going to do but "I'll certainly do this again".
- Graham Steel
I am very tempted by a new excuse to wear t-shirts more of the time.
- Steve Koch
Steve the ScienceOnline2010 conference usually has some pretty decent swag - including t-shirts from the OA crowd
- Jean-Claude Bradley
“The Right to Information Access” October 30, 2009 - http://www.libraries.psu.edu/kaplan...
"The first Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy will address the "right" to knowledge and access to information, as well as the changing role that libraries and publishers play in supporting access in a networked environment. How must the missions of libraries and publishing adapt after the Internet? Who should have access to information and knowledge and how can it best be enabled? What economic, political, and regulatory factors impede that access, and how might they be overcome? Four experts, representing the fields of education, libraries, information technology, and law and public policy, will explore these issues in a day-long symposium held at Penn State University's University Park campus on October 30, 2009."
- Bill Hooker
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This event will be available via a live web stream and remain freely accessible after October 30.
- Bill Hooker
*neat*. wish I could do things like this at mpow
- D0r0th34
If you mix N chemicals so that each is the same concentration in the final mix, that mix is called equimolar in all N chemicals. Is there a generic term for equal-parts mixtures? E.g. you put 200 blue, 200 green, 200 red and 200 yellow marbles in a box: the final mix is not equimolar, it's -- what? There must be a word for that.
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Dammit, I even feel as though I should KNOW the word for that. But I don't.
- Bill Hooker
Grr. This kind of thing is so difficult to search! You'd guess equi- or iso-something...
- Neil Saunders
...to be fair it is equimolar - but that's probably not very useful to you.
- Cameron Neylon
Isometreic would also work, but there are plenty of things that are isometric that aren't equal parts mixtures, so that's not exactly what you want, either.
- Mr. Gunn
isospheric? /ducks and runs
- Björn Brembs
What about "a discrete uniform distribution" of these spheres?
- Daniel Mietchen
hum {thinking} molar is liquids not solids, discrete uniform distribution is more like probability not equality...... "600 Homogeneous; red, green and yellow marbles in a box"
- Robert Higgins
Wow didn't know molar could be a solid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.... But is a colored marble distinct in a "of any molecular, ionic, or atomic species"....
- Robert Higgins
Interesting. I'd go for equi-, like Neil. An equitrope?
- Matthew Todd
Iso-molar? (oops, i misread the question)
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Anything molar is OK for chemicals, but something else is needed for normal objects - here "equimarbler", but you'd expect a general word to exist.
- Matthew Todd
for discrete physical items it would be "balanced" or "equally distributed"
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
equiparticular? or isoparticular?
- Dan Gezelter
some possibilities: equiproportional isometric equinumerant:http://www.webster-dictionary.net/definit... equidivisional
- SuezanneC Baskerville
SuezanneC: isometric and equinumerant seem applicable, nice finds!
- Mike Chelen
Mike, I think "isometric" has too many meanings, thus leaving us with "equinumerant" (which seems to fit, though I've never seen it before).
- Daniel Mietchen
Short communication: Online lab books for supervision of project students - http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/journal...
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Not really open, but it could be with the flip of a setting. Tags: opennotebookscience ELN Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
Great point Bill - that is a big advantage of using a wiki as a lab notebook: it can be made public and indexed on major search engines very quickly. Most ELNs are designed to to keep people out - even if you wanted to you couldn't make them public (and indexed) easily.
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Yes, it's a step away from being open and that is an important point, could export it all as html.
- Jo Badge
exactly what I am gearing up to do with my entire group when on sabbatical next year ... students are looking forward to it, but we need to sort them out on our system first. Is there an equivalent journal for Chemistry? I didn't know I could even publish this sort of stuff!
- Anna Croft
@anna I don't think the physical sci HEA subject centre http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci... has an equivalent journal :-(
- Jo Badge
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To be clear it also depends on the wiki platform. On Wikispaces going from private to public just requires a click (and becomes free - you only pay for private wikis). But on Blackboard I am not sure it is even possible to make truly public - and indexable on Google. Does anyone know for sure?
- Jean-Claude Bradley
No, truly public is not an option on Blackboard. In this case study, that was considered an advantage, and with the experience gained, hopefully the participants will have the confidence to move onto a more public architecture.
- AJCann
Teachers might be surprised about student attitudes towards working openly - I gave my 26 students the option of using a pseudonym for our class wiki and none opted for that http://getcheminfo.wikispaces.com/student...
- Jean-Claude Bradley
When we gave our students the option of making wiki-based reflective e-portfolios public or private last year, they split ~50:50 (n = 200).
- AJCann
Mine were not really keen on wiki (we used wikispaces), and the research students are paranoid about true open working, in case they make mistakes ...
- Anna Croft
Mine weren't keen on the wiki either - that's why: http://tinyurl.com/ygqu3bd
- AJCann
in this case, there is the potential to export the wiki, but you are right @jean-cluade, it isn't a simple switch flipping exercise. The supervisor http://friendfeed.com/richard... finds Blackboard a safe option as it is backed up globally and not stored locally in the lab. What back-up facilities do you use on wikispaces?
- Jo Badge
Jo - Wikispaces has options for exporting the entire site as Wikitext or HTML in a zip file. For projects involving Google spreadsheets and other doc types linked to Wikispaces Andy Lang wrote some code others might find helpful: http://onsarchive.wikispaces.com/
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Will Open Access inhibit innovation? « Myrmecos Blog - http://myrmecos.wordpress.com/2009...
Tags: oa.problems Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
Old hat. IMHO, negligible/solvable problem. If OA is universal, the journal landscape will have radically changed anyway. No way all 24,000 will survive that. Bigger problem of universal OA IMHO is groups with an agenda taking studies and quoting out of context to suit their purpose.
- Björn Brembs
As usual, I agree, Bjoern -- I just like to bookmark all "anti-OA" or similar links (I use the oa.problems tag) so I have an easy way to find all the arguments I've encountered.
- Bill Hooker
Oh, and I think the context problem will solve itself too, by way of community mores -- with 100% OA, anyone who does not link back to the source material will be considered untrustworthy. Context will always be just a click away.
- Bill Hooker
Agreed - but 99% of readers won't understand the source (either).
- Björn Brembs
It is true that lack of funding makes it more difficult to publish in some OA journals - but there are options - fees can be waived in some cases and some OA journals have no author fees (like Beilstein J Organic Chem). In the longer term I hope universities will shift to some extent from paying for journals to paying for publication fees.
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Some good info on waivers here: http://www.arl.org/sparc...
- Bill Hooker
thanks Bill - very good analysis
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Science & Sensibility » Can we improve research by crowd sourcing peer review? - http://www.scienceandsensibility.org/...
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Tags: oa.laymanuse oaos.examples scienceisasnakepit Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
Does this take it farther than PLoS ONE where anyone can comment and "review" the paper post publication?
- Jean-Claude Bradley
BIOLOGY MEETINGS, BIOLOGY CONFERENCES 2009, BIOLOGY MEETING WORLDWIDE - http://www.tritechresearch.com/biology...
Welcome to Biology Meetings.Com - your first stop to find current, up to date links to major biology conferences, scientific meetings, biology seminars and biology meeting throughout the U.S. and the world! Some browsers do not support the graphical google map interface we are using to help find meetings. Tags: conferences work Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
Journal of Participatory Medicine - http://jopm.org/index...
Tags: oaos.citizenscience oa.laymanuse Posted by: cwhooker
- Bill Hooker
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