Tag Archives: open access

Open Article Gauge

Posted on February 7, 2014 by David Shotton

Further to the previous post describing various types of open and closed access, I would like to bring people’s attention to a very useful service developed by Cottage Labs a year or so ago that automatically reports the degree of … Continue reading →

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Describing open access

Posted on January 31, 2014 by David Shotton

To permit computer-readable descriptions to be made of the various types of open access publication discussed in the previous blog post, I have expanded PSO, the Publication Status Ontology, whose use is described in an earlier blog post here, by … Continue reading →

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Open access journals – wheat, chaff and hopeful monsters

Posted on January 24, 2014 by David Shotton

The Fifth Annual Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, organized by OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association [1], was held in Riga, the capital of Latvia, on 18th-20th September 2013.  I was invited to attend to discuss the Open … Continue reading →

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Ten next steps for semantic authors and publishers

Posted on February 26, 2013 by David Shotton

Note added 30 May 2013 Additional information concerning the use of OAI-ORE to specify aggregations of research outputs into data packages and research objects has been added at the end of this blog post. – – – Journal publishing has … Continue reading →

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Open Citations and Semantic Publishing

Posted on June 18, 2012 by David Shotton

Given the renewed interest among publishers in the Open Citations Corpus, following the decisions by Nature Publishing Group, publisher of Nature, and by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of Science, to open their citation data for … Continue reading →

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Five Stars Ontology

Posted on January 16, 2012 by David Shotton

To accompany today’s publication in D-Lib Magazine of the article The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles – a framework for article evaluation highlighted in the previous post, I have today also published The Five Stars Ontology, a simple ontology … Continue reading →

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Five Stars article published in D-Lib Magazine

Posted on January 16, 2012 by David Shotton

I recently posted a brief description of  an article entitled The Five Stars of Journal Articles, pointing to a preprint of this article in Nature Preceedings.  This is to announce that a revised and extended version of that article has … Continue reading →

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2011 retrospective: meetings on the future of research communications

Posted on January 10, 2012 by David Shotton

What a year it has been!  Four key meetings were held during 2011, bringing together academics, computer scientists and scholarly publishers to discuss the future of scholarly communication.  The first of these, a workshop entitled Beyond the PDF, organized and … Continue reading →

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The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles

Posted on October 17, 2011 by David Shotton

Many people will be familiar with Tim Berners-Lee’s five stars of linked data, categorising the publication of data on the web in levels of increasing usefulness.  To complement these, I wish to propose the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles, … Continue reading →

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IBRG projects to facilitate data publication and data citation

Posted on August 4, 2011 by David Shotton

In the previous post, I outlined reasons why researchers don’t publish data, presented as evidence to the Royal Society’s Policy Study “Science as a Public Enterprise” Call for Evidence.  Here, I summarize activities by members of my Image Bioinformatics Research … Continue reading →

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