In a previous post, I looked at the Findability of FAIR data in common chemistry journals. Here I move on to the next letter, the A = Accessible.
Posts Tagged ‘Academic publishing’
The “Accessible” in FAIR (data).
Thursday, April 18th, 2019Tags:Academic publishing, automatic processing, Data management, Digital Object Identifier, EIDR, FAIR data, Findability, Identifiers, Information, Information architecture, Information science, Knowledge, Knowledge representation, metadata, mining, Open Archives Initiative, RDF, Records management, representative, standardized communication protocol, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web design, Written communication, XML
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A search of some major chemistry publishers for FAIR data records.
Friday, April 12th, 2019In recent years, findable data has become ever more important (the F in FAIR). Here I test that F using the DataCite search service.
Tags:Academic publishing, DataCite, Digital Object Identifier, Digital technology, Elsevier, Findability, Identifiers, Information, Information architecture, Information science, Knowledge, Knowledge representation, search service, Web design
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Questions about the (metadata) components of a scientific article.
Monday, April 8th, 2019The conventional procedures for reporting analysis or new results in science is to compose an “article”, augment that perhaps with “supporting information” or “SI”, submit to a journal which undertakes peer review, with revision as necessary for acceptance and finally publication. If errors in the original are later identified, a separate corrigendum can be submitted to the same journal, although this is relatively rare. Any new information which appears post-publication is then considered for a new article, and the cycle continues. Here I consider the possibilities for variations in this sequence of events.
Tags:Academic publishing, American Chemical Society, author, Business intelligence, Company: DataCite, CrossRef, data, Data management, DataCite, editor, EIDR, Information, Information science, JSON, Knowledge representation, Metadata repository, Records management, Technology/Internet, The Metadata Company
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“Richer metadata makes content more useful”
Saturday, February 16th, 2019The 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.
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
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Re-inventing the anatomy of a research article.
Saturday, December 29th, 2018The 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.
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
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Open Access journal publishing debates – the elephant in the room?
Sunday, November 4th, 2018For 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.
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
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Harnessing FAIR data: A suggested useful persistent identifier (PID) for quantum chemical calculations.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018Harnessing FAIR data is an event being held in London on September 3rd; no doubt all the speakers will espouse its virtues and speculate about how to realize its potential.♥ Admirable aspirations indeed. Capturing hearts and minds also needs lots of real life applications! Whilst assembling a forthcoming post on this blog, I realized I might have one nice application which also pushes the envelope a bit further, in a manner that I describe below.
Tags:Academic publishing, chemical context, Code, data, DataCite, energy, free energy activation barrier, Identifiers, Information, ISO/IEC 11179, ORCiD, quantum chemical calculations, real life applications, Technical communication
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First, Open Access, then Open (and FAIR) Data, now Open Citations.
Saturday, February 3rd, 2018The topic of open citations was presented at the PIDapalooza conference and represents a third component in the increasing corpus of open scientific information.
Tags:Academic publishing, Applied linguistics, article processing charge, British National Corpus, chemical stories, cited author, Corpus linguistics, David Shotton, Entertainment/Culture, Linguistics, Open access, Quotation, RDF, social media, Texas A&M–Corpus Christi Islanders women's basketball
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PIDapalooza 2018. A conference like no other!
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018Another occasional conference report (day 1). So why is one about “persistent identifiers” important, and particularly to the chemistry domain?
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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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, 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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