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The BMJ also takes up the issue. See: Open access publishing takes offTony Delamothe and Richard Smith BMJ 2004;328:1-3, doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7430.1
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Once more on open archiving in THES
The latest THES runs a piece by Geoff Watts on open access, following up on an earlier article i covered in this blog. The author cites two examples of the problem open access hopes to solve: 1. He searches the…
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Solipsism gone mad
This blogging is a lonely art, and one that seems to me to be solipism gone mad
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Sappho in LRB
In my long struggle to learn classical Greek (which has become much easier now I attend the splendid classes at the University of Sussex taught by Vassiliki Dimitropoulou) I took a couple of months ago to trying to read Sappho.…
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Online poker
Nothing to do with rugby or horseracing, but the Times for two days now has been flogging online poker for all its worth. Is this simply journalists trying to fill space, do News International own an online poker site, or…
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More obits
I should not have spoken of my frustration with recent obituaries. Hard on the heels of Jennifer Ross came Dinsdale Landen and the Catalan who invented a child’s sweet and commissioned Salvador Dali to design the wrapper. All made fine…
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Commenting
Coming soon, commenting, courtesy of the rather good Haloscan service, which other ibloggers have used, just as soon as I work out how to put the code into my templates. Of course no one will use it as I have…
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1st January 2004
Cheltenham selections
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Undocumented successes
Good stuff on Tuesday. Poor racing, I thought at first, but looked at the Stratford card and made selections for each race: again I made a 50% strike rate, and at workingmens’ prices too: Knightsbridge King in the 210 at…
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Jennifer Ross 1916-2003
"Cultured chocolate heiress" (The Times). The obituaries have been a little thin recently, but this morning's Times more than made up for it. Apart from a long piece on Alan Bates, there was a fascinating one of Jennifer Ross, splendidly…
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Observer cartoon
Today’s Observer runs a cartoon (Roasted) in which two employees of a Starbucks-like coffee house discuss rugby. ” Karl, is rugby unfashionable again?. asks one, “any day now” replies the other, “thank God” says the first. I agree: the consequences…
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Kempton non-runner
Un Jour a Vassy doesn’t go at Kempton, so I’ve gone for Mighty Strong instead. But it’s not very promising so far; a 40-1 shot, Sunray, won the first Chepstow race I had an interest in.
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Old Persean Boxing Day match
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Welsh National
Not a bad day at Kempton yesterday: 50% strike rate, though a nerve-wracking win by Strong Flow; he made two bad blunders which would have had a lesser horse beaten. Fondmort fourth in the King George and Lustral de Seuil…
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Kempton tomorrow
My selections
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CILIP qualifications framework consultation
CILIP launches consultation on new framework I’m preparing a response to CILIP’s consultation on a proposed new framework for qualifications for the library and information profession. It proposes: 1. a new qualification of ACLIP for affiliated (ie non-professional members) 2.…
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Selections for the Saturday before Christmas
A less successful Saturday at least on the horse racing front. Exhaustive study of the Racing Post on the train from Brighton up to London on Saturday morning gave me four selections in the top races of the day at…
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Odd publishing thing
Revising my medical education current awareness service which is the other side of this blogging coin, I encounter an odd problem. I publish my pages to a local location on my hard disk (because of the apparent absence of ftp…
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Institutional archiving in THES
Today’s THES reports on evidence by Steve Harnad to the House of Commons Science & Technology Committee in which he calls for more support for self-archiving. The Committee is considering access to journals within the scientific community and is taking…
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Art Pepper in LRB
Fighting my way through the new London Review of Book s (and putting to one side an article on infinity which, though sober and clear-headed, I stared at for hours without making out even its most basic meaning) I came…