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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Answering searching questions
For twenty years we have had some sort of desktop access to the scientific literature. At first we only had abstracts of articles, and accessed them through fairly clunky interfaces (anyone remember BIDS?). The introduction of PubMed in 1997 improved … Continue reading
Posted in Searching, text mining, UKPMC
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CIHR: Canada Innovating to Help Review?
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is this country’s major source of government funding for biomedical research – the equivalent of the US NIH. They’ve just released a document describing some proposed changes to their grant mechanism portfolio and … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, career, current affairs, grant wrangling, Politics, science
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Mentl
I’ve been moithering about whether to write this post for some time – the reasons for such moitherment will, I hope you’ll see, become clear – but the case has become erumpent for reasons of campaigns such as this and, … Continue reading
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In which I sort it out
All of my professional life, I’ve worked in affluent labs – in academic groups bolstered by multiple sources of grant money, or in a biotech setting flush with investor capital. More recently, I’ve enjoyed a generous personal consumables budget courtesy … Continue reading
Posted in careers, Nostalgia, The profession of science
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Why am I writing this?
On scientific publication I have been working on some publications, you know those results-based things that scientists write, submit, are peer-reviewed and with a bit of luck get published in a fantastic journal and then with not as much luck … Continue reading
Posted in George Whitesides, how to write a paper, peer review, peer-review publishing, scientific publishing
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Science policy – my favourite sites
In a comment on a recent post, Jamie Christie asked me to list my top ten sites on research policy. I thought this would be a difficult task; the best sites will vary depending on your particular interests, and some … Continue reading
Posted in Research management
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Library Day in the Life – weekly round up
Last year I took part in Library Day in the Life (#libday7). For one week I wrote a daily post on Google+ about what I had done during the day, and an end-of-week round-up. I enjoyed the experience and the … Continue reading
Posted in libday8, Libraries and librarians
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How to access Open Access?
My train of thought is still running. Last week, taken aback by the revelation of Elsevier’s deep support for the Research Works Act, an anti open-access piece of US legislation, I declined to review a manuscript for the publisher and … Continue reading
Posted in elsevier, Open Access, Research Works Act, RWA, Scientific Life
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The moonshot power of Google’s new ‘Solve for X’
With ‘Solve for X’ Google is half way to becoming as evil as the bankers. Solve for X is being touted as a kind of techno-think tank, like TED but done cloud style. It advertises itself at its launch today … Continue reading
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