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  • A visit to the BioMedCentral offices

    tweets for embedding in a soon to be published blog post

  • Opportunity Knocks

    A few months ago I gave a short talk about the Open Knowledge Foundation and its activities as relevant to academics at a small (but good!) palaeontology conference in Cambridge (which I blogged about previously). I didn’t need to give this talk. Neither the OKF nor my academic progression required me to give this talk.…

  • The Gold OA plot v0.2

    I said I would make an update on Tuesday (today), so if I get this posted before midnight I will (just) have met that  goal… In this (minor) update I have: added: Ubiquity Press (great low cost option!), SPIE (scored for 1-column per page), SAGE Open, Frontiers, WileyOpenAccess, OxfordOpen (OUP hybrid option), GigaScience, Open Biology (Royal…

  • Revaluing Science in the Digital Age

    Invite-only workshop 2-4th September held at Chicheley Hall: Home of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre.

  • 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…

  • 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…