Another occasional conference report (day 1). So why is one about “persistent identifiers” important, and particularly to the chemistry domain?
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PIDapalooza 2018. A conference like no other!
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018Tags: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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Two stories about Open Peer Review (OPR), the next stage in Open Access (OA).
Thursday, October 5th, 2017We 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.
Tags:Academic publishing, article processing charge, author, Chemical IT, Company: Facebook, Company: Publons, Company: Twitter, editor, Electronic publishing, Entertainment/Culture, General, 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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How to search data repositories for FAIR chemical content and data: SubjectScheme
Thursday, June 8th, 2017As data repositories start to flourish, it is reasonable to ask questions such as what sort of chemistry can be found there and how can I find it? Here I give an updated[1] worked example of a digital repository search for chemical content and also pose an important issue for the chemistry domain.
References
- H.S. Rzepa, A. Mclean, and M.J. Harvey, "InChI As a Research Data Management Tool", Chemistry International, vol. 38, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ci-2016-3-408
Tags:chemical content, Chemical IT, chemical/x- media type, chemical/x-gaussian, Company: DataCite, Company: Google, digital repository search, domain-specific chemical content, media type, media:chemical/x-mnpub, media:chemical\/x\-gaussian*, Question, search definition, search engines, search string, search syntax, subject search
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Supporting information: chemical graveyard or invaluable resource for chemical structures.
Friday, March 31st, 2017Nowadays, data supporting most publications relating to the synthesis of organic compounds is more likely than not to be found in associated “supporting information” rather than the (often page limited) article itself. For example, this article[1] has an SI which is paginated at 907; almost a mini-database in its own right!† Here I ponder whether such dissemination of data is FAIR (Findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable).[2]
References
- J.M. Lopchuk, K. Fjelbye, Y. Kawamata, L.R. Malins, C. Pan, R. Gianatassio, J. Wang, L. Prieto, J. Bradow, T.A. Brandt, M.R. Collins, J. Elleraas, J. Ewanicki, W. Farrell, O.O. Fadeyi, G.M. Gallego, J.J. Mousseau, R. Oliver, N.W. Sach, J.K. Smith, J.E. Spangler, H. Zhu, J. Zhu, and P.S. Baran, "Strain-Release Heteroatom Functionalization: Development, Scope, and Stereospecificity", Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 139, pp. 3209-3226, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b13229
- M.D. Wilkinson, M. Dumontier, I.J. Aalbersberg, G. Appleton, M. Axton, A. Baak, N. Blomberg, J. Boiten, L.B. da Silva Santos, P.E. Bourne, J. Bouwman, A.J. Brookes, T. Clark, M. Crosas, I. Dillo, O. Dumon, S. Edmunds, C.T. Evelo, R. Finkers, A. Gonzalez-Beltran, A.J. Gray, P. Groth, C. Goble, J.S. Grethe, J. Heringa, P.A. ’t Hoen, R. Hooft, T. Kuhn, R. Kok, J. Kok, S.J. Lusher, M.E. Martone, A. Mons, A.L. Packer, B. Persson, P. Rocca-Serra, M. Roos, R. van Schaik, S. Sansone, E. Schultes, T. Sengstag, T. Slater, G. Strawn, M.A. Swertz, M. Thompson, J. van der Lei, E. van Mulligen, J. Velterop, A. Waagmeester, P. Wittenburg, K. Wolstencroft, J. Zhao, and B. Mons, "The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship", Scientific Data, vol. 3, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18
Tags:Carbon, chemical databases, chemical graveyard, Chemical IT, chemical spectra, Chemistry, digital signature, Nature, Organic, Organic chemistry, Organic compound, Organic food, search engines, Technology/Internet
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500 chemical twists: a (chalk and cheese) comparison of the impacts of blog posts and journal articles.
Friday, June 3rd, 2016The 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.
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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Data-round-tripping: wherein the future?
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Moving (chemical) data around in a manner which allows its (automated) use in whichever context it finds itself must be a holy grail for all scientists and chemists. I posted earlier on the fragile nature of molecular diagrams making the journey between the editing program used to create them (say ChemDraw) and the Word processor used to place them into a context (say Microsoft office), via an intermediate storage area known as the clipboard. The round trip between the Macintosh (OS X) versions of these programs had been broken a little while, but it is now fixed! A small victory. This blog reports what happened when such a Mac-created Word document is sent to someone using Microsoft Windows as an OS (or vice versa).
Tags:Android, cellular telephone, chemical, chemical information, Chemical IT, content carrier, HTML, iPad, JPEG, Mac OS X, Macintosh, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, opendata, operating systems, search engines, Web browser, word processor, XML
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