Author Archives: Frank Norman

About Frank Norman

I am a retired librarian. I spent 40 years working in biomedical research libraries.

Futurepub March 2024 – International Women’s Day

Posted on 8 March 2024 by Frank Norman

The latest event in the Futurepub series, on 4 March 2024, took International Women’s Day as its theme. The topics of the talks were related to women and four out of the five speakers were women. It was held at … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Notes from Open Research London, 12 February 2024

Posted on 27 February 2024 by Frank Norman

Earlier this month Open Research London held a half day event at the Francis Crick Institute to mark Love Your Data week, comprising six half-hour talks. The very engaging and interesting talks were focused on research data discovery, with detours … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A choral coda

Posted on 10 April 2023 by Frank Norman

I have been singing with Crouch End Festival Chorus (CEFC) since late 1994 but I have now retired from the choir. The Rachmaninov Vespers on 31 March was my last concert with CEFC as a member. It will be quite … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Library day in the life, Spring 2022 (part 2)

Posted on 22 April 2022 by Frank Norman

This post is an account of what I did at work for four days in Mar/Apr 2022. The idea is to give an impression of the range of tasks I engage in during my work as librarian at the Francis … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Library day in the life, Spring 2022 (part 1)

Posted on 22 April 2022 by Frank Norman

This post is an account of what I did at work for four days in Feb 2022. The idea is to give an impression of the range of tasks I engage in during my work as librarian at the Francis … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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FAIR data in practice

Posted on 26 January 2022 by Frank Norman

Introducing the next Open Research London event, which will be about FAIR data.  It’s easy to agree that making research data FAIR is A Good Thing. Of course research data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. But is it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Publishing incrementally – micropublications

Posted on 3 September 2021 by Frank Norman

Looking back and looking forward I recently received a reminder that it was my 13th anniversary of joining Twitter. I signed up to Twitter as a result of attending the Science Blogging conference in London in 2008 where I heard … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Page charges and OA policies

Posted on 11 June 2021 by Frank Norman

Much of my time in the past 12 months has been committed to preparing for compliance with the Coalition S / Wellcome open access policies. Because we have core funding from Wellcome this means that all research papers submitted on … Continue reading →

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Preprints and science news

Posted on 4 February 2019 by Frank Norman

I’ve written before about preprints and science news. That blogpost was occasioned by the open letter last summer from Fiona Fox at the Science Media Centre on the subject, and the follow-up comment piece by Tom Sheldon in Nature. Mine … Continue reading →

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Diversithon – some recipes

Posted on 10 December 2018 by Frank Norman

Recipe 1 It’s a simple recipe. Gather together some people who want to change the world. Put some inspirational speakers in front of them to get people fired up about diversity in science. Provide cakes and biscuits. Teach some basic … Continue reading →

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