Comments for Tony Hey on eScience http://tonyhey.net Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:04:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on A Journey to Open Access – Part 6 by Barbara Kirsop http://tonyhey.net/2013/04/04/a-journey-to-open-access-part-6/#comment-801 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:04:21 +0000 http://tonyhey.net/?p=113#comment-801 To Tony Hey’s list of OA champions, I would add a few that work tirelessly in the developing world to ensure unique information from these regions is included in the global knowledge base. I am thinking of Subbiah Arunachalam, India, and recent winners of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development’s OA-Award, Iryna Kuchma, Ukraine – manager of EIFL-OA programme – and Francis Jayakanth, India, who have contributed massively on a personal basis. We have had a few false springs, but this begins to feel like a true OA spring at last.

]]> Comment on A Journey to Open Access – Part 4 by A journey to open access | openingscience.org http://tonyhey.net/2013/02/04/a-journey-to-open-access-part-4/#comment-800 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:54:33 +0000 http://tonyhey.net/?p=100#comment-800 [...] A journey to open access [...]

]]> Comment on A Journey to Open Access – Part 6 by Seb Schmoller http://tonyhey.net/2013/04/04/a-journey-to-open-access-part-6/#comment-798 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:15:32 +0000 http://tonyhey.net/?p=113#comment-798 Tony
[Further to yesterday's email exchange.]
You write “The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has also launched an inquiry into open access which has yet to report”. The inquiry is by the House of Commons BIS Committee, which has this remit “The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the administration, expenditure and policy of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and its associated public bodies, including Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT)”. Full details of the inquiry are here. So the inquiry is part of the scrutiny by Members of Parliament of the work of a Government department (BIS) rather than, as you imply, something run by BIS itself.
Thanks for full series, which has definitely been of value.
Seb Schmoller

]]> Comment on A Journey to Open Access – Part 4 by Terry Bucknell (@terrybucknell) http://tonyhey.net/2013/02/04/a-journey-to-open-access-part-4/#comment-442 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:40:50 +0000 http://tonyhey.net/?p=100#comment-442 Small correction: the RCUK policy DOES allow you to publish an RCUK-funded article under Gold OA WITHOUT CC-BY, if no the journal does NOT charge an APC.

]]> Comment on A Journey to Open Access by Tony Hey http://tonyhey.net/2012/12/19/a-journey-to-open-access/#comment-196 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:53:01 +0000 http://tonyhey.net/?p=78#comment-196 Ross – Agreed!
Apologies – I was over-simplifying and relying on Peter Suber’s book on OA to provide the details.

]]> Comment on A Journey to Open Access by Ross Mounce (@rmounce) http://tonyhey.net/2012/12/19/a-journey-to-open-access/#comment-181 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:05:56 +0000 http://tonyhey.net/?p=78#comment-181 Just a Point of Information:

Not all ‘Gold’ OA journals require author(s)/funders to pay.
Articles can be accepted AND published free of charge to both author & reader.

The small costs incurred in the publication process are covered by societies, institutions, and volunteered time in these cases.

e.g. JMLR, APP, many maths journals…

]]> Comment on An Understated Problem: Distance from the Data by Steve Hitchcock http://tonyhey.net/2011/08/17/an-understated-problem-distance-from-the-data/#comment-11 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:44:02 +0000 http://tonyhey.net/?p=59#comment-11 All of which suggests we should add a distance dimension to digital preservation of data; currently digital preservation tends to be more concerned with the temporal dimension.

Another possible effect of distance is on the quality and impact of research. An article last year in PLoS ONE found that “Despite the positive impact of emerging communication technologies on scientific research, our results provide striking evidence for the role of physical proximity as a predictor of the impact of collaborations.” (http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0014279) Although this research has been criticised (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7332/full/470039c.html), your identification of the distance factor in science suggests there may be more to this result.

]]> Comment on Feynman’s Vision: The Next 50 Years by Michael A. Gottlieb http://tonyhey.net/2011/02/04/feynman%e2%80%99s-vision-the-next-50-years/#comment-3 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:17:20 +0000 http://tonyhey.net/?p=12#comment-3 Hi, Tony!

I had intended to go to TEDxCaltech, but ran into some last minute problems and couldn’t make it, which was a huge disappointment, mainly because I was looking forward to meeting you, Curtis, and a number of other people who’s lives have touched mine via Feynman over the past decade, during which I have been involved in the production of two editions of The Feynman Lectures on Physics (FLP) – The Definitive Edition and the recently published New Millennium Edition.

As you may be aware (if you have read the preface to Feynman Tips on Physics), your book, Feynman Lectures on Computation, is what inspired me (a computer programmer) to study FLP in the first place; doing so eventually led to my becoming FLP’s editor, and, with Ralph Leighton and Rudi Pfeiffer, to developing a new LaTeX manuscript for FLP, which is the basis of the New Millennium Edition, and also the basis of the multimedia electronic edition you saw demonstrated at TEDxCaltech. I therefore consider you the pedagogical grandfather of the new electronic edition of FLP !

Best regards,
Mike Gottlieb
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http://www.feynmanlectures.info

P.S. The 1st time I tried to post this, it seemed nothing happened, so I am trying again. Please delete this 2nd copy, if you receive two.

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