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Month: November 2012

  • yet another #solo12 recap (part2)

    A couple of days ago I posted specifically about the data re-use session. I’m going to use this post to muse about the conference more generally. About SpotOn London 2012 It used to be called Science Online London – an informative, sensible and appropriate name. This year I hear (rumours) that it had to change…

  • yet another #solo12 recap (part 1)

    So there’s been a few already: SpotOn day 1 & SpotOn day 2 being the best I’ve read, from Ian Mulvany see also: SpotOn London – a global conference by Jon Tennant | #solo12 reflection by A J Cann | SpotOn London 2012 in brief by Charis Cook | Altmetric @ SpotOn London 2012 by Jean Liu, and more… but since…

  • Gold OA Pricewatch

    An interesting move from Nature Publishing Group today… In a press release dated 7 November 2012 they’ve announced they’re allowing the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to be applied to articles in some (but not all) of their journals, specifically citing Wellcome Trust and RCUK policies that now require their funded authors to publish…

  • A visit to the BioMedCentral offices

    tweets for embedding in a soon to be published blog post