Posts Tagged ‘researcher’
Sunday, November 4th, 2018
For perhaps ten years now, the future of scientific publishing has been hotly debated. The traditional models are often thought to be badly broken, although convergence to a consensus of what a better model should be is not apparently close. But to my mind, much of this debate seems to miss one important point, how to publish data.
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Tags:Academia, Academic publishing, American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, article processing charge, article processing charges, artificial intelligence, Chemical IT, Cognition, Company: RSC, Electronic publishing, G factor, Hybrid open access journal, Knowledge, Michael Dewar, Nature, online era, Open access, Predatory publishing, Publishing, researcher, Royal Society of Chemistry, Scholarly communication, Science, Technology/Internet
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
Another occasional conference report (day 1). So why is one about “persistent identifiers” important, and particularly to the chemistry domain?
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Tags:Academic publishing, Andy Mabbett, Chemical IT, Digital Object Identifier, Identifiers, Imperial College, Index, Information science, Johanna McEntyre, Knowledge, Mark Hahnel, ORCiD, Persistent identifier, Publishing, Quotation, researcher, Scholarly communication, SciCrunch, search engines, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Tom Gillespie
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Friday, June 3rd, 2016
The title might give it away; this is my 500th blog post, the first having come some eight years ago. Very little online activity nowadays is excluded from measurement and so it is no surprise that this blog and another of my "other" scholarly endeavours, viz publishing in traditional journals, attract such "metrics" or statistics. The h-index is a well-known but somewhat controversial measure of the impact of journal articles; here I thought I might instead take a look at three less familiar ones – one relating to blogging, one specific to journal publishing and one to research data.
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Tags:Chemical IT, Country: Svalbard and Jan Mayen, CrossRef, head of information resources, HTML, Imperial College, librarian, online activity, Online Usage, PDF, researcher, search engines, usage statistics portal
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
I occasionally post about "RDM" (research data management), an activity that has recently become a formalised essential part of the research processes. I say recently formalised, since researchers have of course kept research notebooks recording their activities and their data since the dawn of science, but not always in an open and transparent manner. The desirability of doing so was revealed by the 2009 "Climategate" events. In the UK, Climategate was apparently the catalyst which persuaded the funding councils (such as the EPSRC, the Royal Society, etc) to formulate policies which required all their funded researchers to adopt the principles of RDM by May 2015 and in their future researches. An early career researcher here, anxious to conform to the funding body instructions, sent me an email a few days ago asking about one aspect of RDM which got me thinking.
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Tags:Academic publishing, chemical identifiers, Chemical IT, chemical names and chemical terms, chemical tagger page, CrossRef, Data management, Data management plan, DataCite, Identifiers, ORCiD, RDM, researcher, Royal Society, Singular spectrum analysis, Technical communication, Technology/Internet
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Monday, February 1st, 2016
I attended the first (of a proposed five) workshops organised by LEARN (an EU-funded project that aims to ...Raise awareness in research data management (RDM) issues & research policy) on Friday. Here I give some quick bullet points relating to things that caught my attention and or interest. The program (and Twitter feed) can be found at https://learnrdm.wordpress.com where other's comments can also be seen.
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Tags:Academic publishing, Chemical IT, European Union, first Open Scientist, first secretary, Free culture movement, Henry Oldenburg, Jean Claude Bradley, Open access, Open data, Open science, RDM, Research, researcher, Royal Society, Science, Scientific method, Scientific misconduct, scientist, Technology/Internet
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Saturday, June 20th, 2015
The university sector in the UK has quality inspections of its research outputs conducted every seven years, going by the name of REF or Research Excellence Framework. The next one is due around 2020, and already preparations are under way! Here I describe how I have interpreted one of its strictures; that all UK funded research outputs (i.e. research publications in international journals) must be made available in open unrestricted form within three months of the article being accepted for publication, or they will not be eligible for consideration in 2020.
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Tags:Academia, Academic publishing, Archival science, author, Chemical IT, Data management, Digital library, EPrints, Institutional repository, Knowledge, Knowledge representation, Library science, metadata, Open access, PDF, personal web page, Preprint, Publishing, Repository, researcher, ROMEO GREEN, Science, Technology/Internet, United Kingdom, web server
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
Egon has reminded us that adoption of ORCID (Open researcher and collaborator ID) is gaining apace. It is a mechanism to disambiguate (a Wikipedia term!) contributions in the researcher community and to also remove much of the anonymity (where that is undesirable) that often lurks in social media sites.
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Tags:Chemical IT, Chemoinformatics, George Orwell, Gravatar, journal submission systems, online publications, Open researcher, researcher, social media sites, Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Saturday, November 1st, 2014
Egon Willighagen recently gave a presentation at the RSC entitled “The Web – what is the issue” where he laments how little uptake of web technologies as a “channel for communication of scientific knowledge and data” there is in chemistry after twenty years or more. It caused me to ponder what we were doing with the web twenty years ago. Our HTTP server started in August 1993, and to my knowledge very little content there has been deleted (it’s mostly now just hidden). So here are some ancient pages which whilst certainly not examples of how it should be done nowadays, give an interesting historical perspective. In truth, there is not much stuff that is older out there!
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Tags:3D printing language, ACS, BBC, Bryan Levitt, chemical audience, chemical information technologies, Chemical IT, Darek Bogdal, Fortran, Guillaume Cottenceau, Historical, HTML, http, Java, large supermarket chain, personal Web presence, Python, researcher, spectroscopy, Tesco, Virtual reality, WATOC, web technologies
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Sunday, September 15th, 2013
I do go on rather a lot about enabling or hyper-activating[1] data. So do others[2]. Why is sharing data important?
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References
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O. Casher, G.K. Chandramohan, M.J. Hargreaves, C. Leach, P. Murray-Rust, H.S. Rzepa, R. Sayle, and B.J. Whitaker, "Hyperactive molecules and the World-Wide-Web information system", Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2, pp. 7, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/P29950000007
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R. Van Noorden, "Data-sharing: Everything on display", Nature, vol. 500, pp. 243-245, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nj7461-243a
Tags:Chemical IT, chemical tagger, data mining, datument, David Scheschkewitz, e-notebook, Google, Interesting chemistry, opendata, Peter Murray-Rust, pre-processor, researcher, scientific tool, supervisor, United Kingdom
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Monday, June 24th, 2013
The blog post by Rich Apodaca entitled “The Horrifying Future of Scientific Communication” is very thought provoking and well worth reading. He takes us through disruptive innovation, and how it might impact upon how scientists communicate their knowledge. One solution floated for us to ponder is that “supporting Information, combined with data mining tools, could eliminate most of the need for manuscripts in the first place“. I am going to juxtapose that suggestion on something else I recently discovered.
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Tags:Chemical IT, data mining, data mining tools, Google, opendata, researcher
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