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Not a new idea and the devil is in the detail. Will F1000 Research or someone else crack this nut? - Matt Hodgkinson

I was advised to do just that - and I did !! - Graham Steel

You can cede the rights but you can't cede the history. I will continue to do my damndest to give credit not least because I'm a white middle class middle aged male building on a lot of work by women and people given a significantly less easy ride than I have. - Cameron Neylon

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High praise indeed. The Loon is, as we all know, a very picky bird. :-) - Bill Hooker

+1 Bill. It was the "in its entirety" that gives me a warm inner glow :-) - Cameron Neylon

I hear that you saved the Loon having to write such a post herself, Cameron. *g* - RepoRat

Understanding how a process looks from outside our own echo chamber can be useful. It helps to calibrate and sanity check our own responses. It adds an external perspective and at its best can save us from our own overly fixed ideas. In the case of the ongoing Elsevier Boycott we even have a ... - Cameron Neylon

One publisher specified: ‘[…] the best way for the EU to contribute to the circulation of knowledge is by supporting publishers, who deliver quality-controlled information necessary for knowledge. Publishers need to be paid for their work, which researchers value, and the flow of this money from funders to publishers needs to be better organised.’ - Jaclyn Bedoya

Mike Taylor has a parable on the Guardian Blog about research communication and I thought it might be useful to share one that I have been using in talks recently. For me it illustrates just how silly the situation is, and how hard it is to break out of the mindset of renting access ... - Cameron Neylon

And now you made me click on KA's post and after the first three sentences, the stupid had severely overcooked my brain - it now looks and acts like cauliflower. will need all day to recover. - Björn Brembs

"But that means the authors still hold the copyright? And I would have to ask them for permission? Normally yes." - Egon Willighagen

Article-level metrics let you see how you're doing. Comments on the article let you carry out relevant discussions right where the paper is rather than off on a blog somewhere. In short, PLoS was designed from the ground up ...

So important. #FRPAA doesn't solve this at all (PubMed Central can't be used for text mining). I'd like to hope #FRPAA is a positive incremental step toward text mining, but maybe energy will die without getting there. Should we be lobbying for inclusion of text mining rights in it now while energy is up, and or making it clear that we interpret #FRPAA as including text mining rights, or ? - Heather Piwowar

I just realized that I must have commented on the wrong post with my first comment. Sorry, it was early morning on a weekend with a toddler asking for attention... Now if I could find the post I wanted to comment on, the one with the Open Letter from Elsevier... - Björn Brembs

1. With Leonie Hayes (repositories at U of AKL) and @nickdjones (Centre for eResearch U AKL and involved in eresarch infrastcture for NZ) we want to run a session called 'Is New Zealand ready for Open Science'. We are Hoping Alex will join us. Both NZ and Oz have an 'open access mandate' (NZGOAL in NZ and I think it is called AUGOAL or something in Australia) whereby govt agencies are encouraged to deposit their data under creative commons. One of the people involved in NZGOAL will be there, and I would love to see Universities (or at least research funding bodies) listed in the NZGOAL (so far only crown research institutes are) One of the topics of converstaion in the planning with Nick and Leonie was to think a bit about what 'open science' is worth fighting for given the NZ (and OZ) contexts (which may be somewhat different from US and Euriope) - Kubke

Quick report back from #kiwifoo. Just got home with melted brain and the need to review a few documents for a meeting tomorrow. The short version:- 1. We did have a session on open science (well 2 really) and got wonderful feedback. I think that we can get good things going, and this is always good news.2. I got a good outline from Josh from enspiral regarding daniel's project, and now... more... - Kubke

No way. I can't think of a style with which I have more facility. - Kaijsa

I use MLA (Medical not Modern) mostly these days. I've gotten to where I can proofread it without a whole lot of thinking and generally it seems pretty intuitive. But then, I learned by writing out 3x5 cards and losing points for lost periods or semicolons, so I'm biased. - Hedgehog

Have you ever thought of yourself as a vector? To some life forms, you certainly are. Amongst them is the pepper mild mottle virus that transits your digestive tract before reaching target plants like pepper. In today’s Open Access File of the Day, … Continue reading → - Daniel Mietchen

When the history of the Research Works Act, and the reaction against it, is written that history will point at the factors that allowed smart people with significant marketing experience to walk with their eyes wide open into the teeth of a storm that thousands of people would have predicted with complete confidence. That ... - Cameron Neylon

The funders will have a strong impact in the biomedical publishing world with all of the NIH funding, but I am not sure how this will play out in chemistry or small lab physics or math(s) or small lab biology or... - Just Joe