In the previous post, I noted that a chemistry publisher is about to repeat an earlier experiment in serving pre-prints of journal articles. It would be fair to suggest that following the first great period of journal innovation, the boom in rapid publication “camera-ready” articles in the 1960s, the next period of rapid innovation started around 1994 driven by the uptake of the World-Wide-Web. The CLIC project[cite]10.1080/13614579509516846[/cite] aimed to embed additional data-based components into the online presentation of the journal Chem Communications, taking the form of pop-up interactive 3D molecular models and spectra. The Internet Journal of Chemistry was designed from scratch to take advantage of this new medium.[cite]10.1080/00987913.2000.10764578[/cite] Here I take a look at one recent experiment in innovation which incorporates “augmented reality”.[cite]10.1055/s-0035-1562579[/cite]
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Journal innovations – the next step is augmented reality?
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016Tags:Academia, Academic publishing, Boom, Design, Design Services, Innovation, Internet Journal, online presentation, Preprint, Publishing, reaction energy profile, technology helps, Web browser, web-based molecular viewer
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Chemistry preprint servers (revisited).
Tuesday, August 16th, 2016This 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)?
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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Data-free research data management? Not an oxymoron.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016I 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.
Tags:Academic publishing, chemical identifiers, 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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Collaborative FAIR data sharing.
Sunday, April 17th, 2016I want to describe a recent attempt by a group of collaborators to share the research data associated with their just published article.[cite]10.1021/jacs.5b13070[/cite]
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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Metametadata: data about data about (chemical) data.
Saturday, April 16th, 2016Scientists are familiar with the term data, at least in a scientific or chemical context, but appreciating metadata (meaning "after", or "beyond") is slightly more subtle, in the sense of using it to mean data about data. The challenge lies in clarifying where the boundary between data and its metadata lies and in specifying and controlling the vocabulary used for these metadata descriptions. Items in a chemical metadata dictionary might include e.g. subject classifications such as Organic Molecular Chemistry or identifiers such as InChIkey. But what could metametadata be? Here I briefly show some examples by way of illustration.
Tags:Academic publishing, automated software analysis, BASE, chemical context, Chemical Database Service, chemical metadata, chemical metadata dictionary, chemical space, City: Cambridge, Data dictionary, Data management, Identifiers, Knowledge representation, programmer, Registry of Research Data Repositories, search.datacite.org/api, SPECTRa, Technology/Internet
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Publishing embargoes.
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016Publishing embargoes seem a relatively new phenomenon, probably starting in areas of science when the data produced for a scientific article was considered more valuable than the narrative of that article. However, the concept of the embargo seems to be spreading to cover other aspects of publishing, and I came across one recently which appears to take such embargoes into new and uncharted territory.
Tags:Academic publishing, Embargo, Open access, Publishing, Royal Society of Chemistry, Technology/Internet, Uncharted, Uncharted Territory
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Global initiatives in research data management and discovery: searching metadata.
Monday, March 7th, 2016The upcoming ACS national meeting in San Diego has a CINF (chemical information division) session entitled "Global initiatives in research data management and discovery". I have highlighted here just one slide from my contribution to this session, which addresses the discovery aspect of the session.
Tags:Academic publishing, chemical, chemical information division, Chemical nomenclature, chemical structures, Chemical substance, chemical/x-wavefunction, Cheminformatics, City: San Diego, content media, data repository search, format type chemical/x-* , Identifiers, Imperial College, Imperial College London, International Chemical Identifier, JSON, media types, multipurpose internet media extensions, ORCiD, PDF, potential such systems, research data management, Search queries, Technical communication, Technology/Internet
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LEARN Workshop: Embedding Research Data as part of the research cycle
Monday, February 1st, 2016I 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.
Tags:Academic publishing, 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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Single Figure (nano)publications, reddit AMAs and other new approaches to research reporting
Wednesday, August 5th, 2015I recently received two emails each with a subject line new approaches to research reporting. The traditional 350 year-old model of the (scientific) journal is undergoing upheavals at the moment with the introduction of APCs (article processing charges), a refereeing crisis and much more. Some argue that brand new thinking is now required. Here are two such innovations (and I leave you to judge whether that last word should have an appended ?).
Tags:10.15200, 143871.12809, Academia, Academic publishing, advocate, Citation, data mining, Digital Object Identifier, Do, Knowledge, knowledge mining, Microattribution, Mobley, original researcher, Peer review, Publishing, scholarly publishing tools, Technology/Internet, the New Reddit Journal, Yogi Berra
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Personal web pages on digital repositories.
Saturday, June 20th, 2015The 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.
Tags:Academia, Academic publishing, Archival science, author, 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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