Tag Archives: Peter Murray-Rust
Open Access 10 years on. Can we say “This is for everyone”?
Peter Murray-Rust comments the open access movement since the BOAI 10 years ago, critically asks his own role as open access advocate and calls for trust in future challenges.Publishers such as Nature can make LOTS of money out of non-CC-BY articles; authors, is this what you want?
Peter Murray-Rust queries scientific publishing without a CC-BY license.Wikipedia raises the awareness and need for #openaccess
Peter Murray-Rust on Wikipedia's Open Access Project: Signaling OA-ness.Decentralized Open infrastructure: an example from The Blue Obelisk
The good news is that information infrastructure can be very cheap and – certainly at an early stage – can be radical altered (refactored) if the community wants. The key thing is COMMUNICATION. As long as we know what other people are doing and saying many of the difficulties are solved.Blog entry by Peter Murray-Rust, open access & open knowledge advocate, works in Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
Managing data and software liberation
Blog entry by Peter Murray-Rust, chemist at University of Cambridge and open data advocate.Why should we continue to pay typesetters/publishers lots of money to process (and even destroy) science? And a puzzle for you.
The average large STM publisher receives several thousand USD (either in subscriptions or in author processing charges (APC)) to process an article. This huge and unjustified sum contains not only obscene profits (30-40 %) but also gross inefficiencies and often destruction of scientific content. The point is that publishers decide what THEY want to do irrespective of what authors or sighted human readers want (let alone unsighted readers or machines).Peter Murray-Rust’s Blog.
Create better PDFs for the use in academic research and repositories
AMI2 is a project to turn PDFs into fully semantic computable, searchable, executable documents with human intervention.A project by Peter Murray-Rust, advocating the liberation of knowledge, Department of Chemistry, Univeristy of Cambridge.
How should we communicate science?
How should we communicate science?A demonstration on recycling data by Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, UK.
Open access for images published in open access articles
Open access for images published in open access articlesPeter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, set online (blog post) a conversation with Springer Science+Business Media to discuss Springer’s position and explanation on SpringerImages.
See also the Springer Open statement concerning Murray-Rust’s blog entry here.