The title of this post comes from the site www.crossref.org/members/prep/ Here you can explore how your favourite publisher of scientific articles exposes metadata for their journal.
February 16, 2019
“Richer metadata makes content more useful”
Filed under: Interesting chemistry — Tags: Aaron Swartz, Academic publishing, API, Business intelligence, CrossRef, data, Data management, Elsevier, favourite publisher, Identifiers, Information, Information science, Knowledge, Knowledge representation, metadata, mining, ORCiD, PDF, Pre-exposure prophylaxis, Publishing, Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata, Records management, Research Object, Scholarly communication, Scientific literature, search engine, social media, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, text mining, Written communication, XML — Henry Rzepa @ 9:33 am
December 29, 2018
Re-inventing the anatomy of a research article.
Filed under: Chemical IT — Tags: Academic publishing, Acrobat, Articles, chemical discoveries, data, Data management, ELN, Information, Molecules, Narrative, PDF, Publishing, Research, Scholarly communication, Science, Scientific Journal, Scientific method, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web browser — Henry Rzepa @ 11:21 am
The traditional structure of the research article has been honed and perfected for over 350 years by its custodians, the publishers of scientific journals. Nowadays, for some journals at least, it might be viewed as much as a profit centre as the perfected mechanism for scientific communication. Here I take a look at the components of such articles to try to envisage its future, with the focus on molecules and chemistry.
November 4, 2018
Open Access journal publishing debates – the elephant in the room?
Filed under: Chemical IT — Tags: Academia, Academic publishing, American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, article processing charge, article processing charges, artificial intelligence, 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 — Henry Rzepa @ 12:22 pm
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.
January 23, 2018
PIDapalooza 2018. A conference like no other!
Filed under: Chemical IT — Tags: Academic publishing, Andy Mabbett, 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 — Henry Rzepa @ 7:03 pm
Another occasional conference report (day 1). So why is one about “persistent identifiers” important, and particularly to the chemistry domain?
October 5, 2017
Two stories about Open Peer Review (OPR), the next stage in Open Access (OA).
Filed under: Chemical IT,General — Tags: Academic publishing, article processing charge, author, Company: Facebook, Company: Publons, Company: Twitter, editor, Electronic publishing, Entertainment/Culture, Hybrid open access journal, Internet giants, OA, Open access, Organic Syntheses, Public sphere, Publishing, Scholarly communication, search engines, Social Media & Networking, Technology/Internet — Henry Rzepa @ 9:56 am
We have heard a lot about OA or Open Access (of journal articles) in the last five years, often in association with the APC (Article Processing Charge) model of funding such OA availability. Rather less discussed is how the model of the peer review of these articles might also evolve into an Open environment. Here I muse about two experiences I had recently.
August 16, 2016
Chemistry preprint servers (revisited).
Filed under: Chemical IT — Tags: Academia, Academic publishing, article processing charge, author, Data publishing, Data sharing, food, Grey literature, Open access, Open science, PDF, Peter Murray-Rust, pre-print server, Preprint, preprint server, Public sphere, Publishing, Scholarly communication, Technology/Internet — Henry Rzepa @ 4:16 pm
This week the ACS announced its intention to establish a “ChemRxiv preprint server to promote early research sharing“. This was first tried quite a few years ago, following the example of especially the physicists. As I recollect the experiment lasted about a year, attracted few submissions and even fewer of high quality. Will the concept succeed this time, in particular as promoted by a commercial publisher rather than a community of scientists (as was the original physicists model)?
April 17, 2016
Collaborative FAIR data sharing.
Filed under: Chemical IT — Tags: 10.17616, Academic publishing, DataCite, energy profile diagrams, Figshare, Identifiers, Open science, ORCiD, PDF, Scholarly communication, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web-enhanced object — Henry Rzepa @ 12:55 pm
I want to describe a recent attempt by a group of collaborators to share the research data associated with their just published article.[1]
References
- C. Romain, Y. Zhu, P. Dingwall, S. Paul, H.S. Rzepa, A. Buchard, and C.K. Williams, "Chemoselective Polymerizations from Mixtures of Epoxide, Lactone, Anhydride, and Carbon Dioxide", Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 138, pp. 4120-4131, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b13070