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Month: August 2012

  • A visualization of Gold Open Access options

    To try and publicize the variety of Gold Open Access article publication options on offer, I’ve decided to create a visualization of the journal data that has previously been collected as part of my survey of ‘Open Access’ publisher licenses’ spreadsheet. Here is version 0.1 of the ‘Mounce plot’ (much more data still to be…

  • Answers to questions about the SVP meeting abstract embargo

    Considering I emailed him on a Friday, Darin Croft has done well to reply to my questions about the SVP abstract embargo so soon, on Monday. I don’t always get such swift replies, so that is much appreciated. [Thanks Darin!] Below is his email in full, as promised (the bits in quotes are my original…

  • Some further questions for SVP about their talk abstract embargo

    I just sent this email to Darin Croft (of SVP). I chose to contact him because he recently answered questions about the embargo for EmbargoWatch and it was rather unclear who else I should approach. I did not want to blanket email the whole council. This is the (entire) email I sent him, from my…

  • The ridiculous SVP embargo is back again

    Sometimes you just have to laugh… The year is 2012, we have the internet, we have blogs, and a huge variety of other tools to enable free, efficient and rapid communication of information and yet the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting rules still insist that all information within this year’s abstract booklet remain a…

  • Open Access discussed on the radio

    [I’m cross posting this from the OKFN version so I can embed the audio of the show in the post] Last Friday (17/08/12), representing the Open Knowledge Foundation, I had the pleasure of discussing the new Research Councils UK (RCUK) plan for all UK publicly-funded research to be published Open Access, on a special half…

  • Panton Fellowship updates: July (month 4)

    It’s the Olympics now so this work update is a) late and b) short Nevermind… As ever progress has been exciting – look what we can extract from some PDFs: (click to enlarge each) Attribution: The left panel is from Cánovas et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:371 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-371 On the left is the original figure,…