Posts Tagged ‘Scholarly communication’
Saturday, December 29th, 2018
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.
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Tags:Academic publishing, Acrobat, chemical discoveries, ELN, Molecules, PDF, Publishing, Scholarly communication, Science, Scientific Journal, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web browser
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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, 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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Thursday, October 5th, 2017
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.
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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
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2016
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)?
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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
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Sunday, April 17th, 2016
I want to describe a recent attempt by a group of collaborators to share the research data associated with their just published article.[1]
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References
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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
Tags:10.17616, Academic publishing, DataCite, energy profile diagrams, Figshare, Identifiers, Open science, ORCiD, PDF, Scholarly communication, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web-enhanced object
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Henry Rzepa is Emeritus Professor of Computational Chemistry at Imperial College London.
Collaborative FAIR data sharing. is licensed by Henry Rzepa under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.