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[15 Nov 2007 | 12 Comments | ]

Weird. I came across WebCite this morning while having a quick scan through the Eysenbach paper on Open Access increasing number of citations in PLoS Biology. At the bottom was the comment that all the web pages have been archived on WebCite. Going across to WebCite I find the following:
What is WebCite®?
WebCite® is an archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. …

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[14 Nov 2007 | 13 Comments | ]

I have been waiting to write this post for a while. The biggest concern expressed when people consider taking on an Open Notebook Science approach is that of being ‘scooped’. I wanted to talk about this potential risk using a personal example where my group was scooped but I didn’t want to talk about someone else’s published paper until the paper on our work was available for people to compare. Our paper has just gone live at PLoS ONE so you will be able to compare the two sets of …

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[6 Nov 2007 | 19 Comments | ]

I got to meet Jeremiah Faith this morning and we had an excellent wide ranging discussion which I will try to capture in more detail later. However I wanted to get down some thoughts we had at the end of the discussion. We were talking about how to publicise and generate more interest and activity for Open Notebook Science. Jeremiah suggested the idea of a Sourceforge for science; a central clearing house somewhere on the web where projects could be described and people could opt in to contribute. There have …

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[5 Nov 2007 | 13 Comments | ]

So I have given three talks in ten days or so, one at the CanSAS meeting at NIST,  one at Drexel University and one at MIT last night. Jean-Claude Bradley was kind enough to help me record the talk at Drexel as a screencast and you can see this in various formats here. He has also made some comments on the talk on the UsefulChem Blog and Scientific Blogging site.
The talks at Drexel and MIT were interesting. I was expecting the focus of questions to be more on the issues …

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[29 Oct 2007 | 2 Comments | ]

Given that most people reading this probably also read the UsefulChem Blog I would guess that they have already figured out I am visiting the States. However as I am now here and due to jet lag have a few hours to kill before breakfast I thougt I might detail the intinerary for anyone interested.

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[14 Oct 2007 | One Comment | ]

As has been flagged up by Jean-Claude Bradley there are a couple of places now where people can sign up to say that they have Open Notebook Science in their laboratory, practise Open Notebook Science,or even would like to find a place where they can keep an Open Notebook.  Jean-Claude has put a list on the Nodalpoint Wiki and I have set up a database at DabbleDB. Dabbledb is a rather cool web based database system that provides free access as long as you make the database contents freely available. Because the …

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[13 Oct 2007 | Comments Off on PMR’s Open Notebook Project continued | ]

This is reply continuing the conversation with Peter Murray-Rust on his plans for an Open Notebook Science based project. I have cut a lot of the context to keep the post size to a manageable level so if you want to track back see the original two posts from Peter, my response, and Peter’s response to that in full.
I should add that I am not a coder in any form so where this gets technical I am proposing things in principle (or hand waving as some might put it :).
PMR: …

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[11 Oct 2007 | 6 Comments | ]

Peter Murray-Rust is going to take an Open Notebook Science approach to a project on checking whether NMR spectra match up with the molecules they are asserted to represent. The question he poses is how best to organise this. The form of an open notebook seems to be a theme at the moment with both discussions between myself and Jean-Claude Bradley (see also the ONS session at SFLO and associated comments) as well as an initiative on OpenWetWare to develop their Wiki notebook platform with more features. There are many …

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[9 Oct 2007 | 17 Comments | ]

This quote is grabbed from a comment by Jean-Claude Bradley at bbgm in reply to my comment on Deepak’s post on my post on…. anyway my original comment was that our Wiki review would not be indexed on Google Scholar which is where people might go for literature searches
Jean-Claude:
Getting on Google Scholar is something on my list to look into – if anyone knows how to do it please let us know. But from our Sitemeter tracking on UsefulChem it is clear that scientists are using Google to search for …

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[2 Oct 2007 | Comments Off on Joint NSF-EPSRC programme in Chemistry – an opportunity for ONS? | ]

Looking at the EPSRC website I came across the following call for proposals involving collaboration between a US and UK programme:
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/NSF-EPSRCChemistryProposals07.htm
Now, being an academic I’m up for any method of trying to get money out the system, especially special programmes. But is there an opportunity here to do something quite exciting in the area of Open Notebooks for chemistry where we take Jean-Claude’s experience and our Lab Blogbook system and try to build something that combines the best of both or possibly better, something which is a superset of both? …