Comments on: Chemunpub Forum Redux

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:32:06 +0000

It’s right there, in the left hand column under the heading “Site Search”. However, while certain aspects of a site like this may resemble a forum, and we certainly debate scientific issues of the day, this page is part of the Sciencebase science blog as opposed to the Sciencebase science forum. Anyone can contribute a comment, but the posts are generally initiated by me, with only very occasional guest articles.

By: Kaphackadia

Kaphackadia — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:27:15 +0000

Hi, everybody!

I think, that this is a great forum. Very intresting and useful.
But I can’t find the search function, cause I want faster find the topics that could be intresting for me to express my opinion…
Please help me with search function on this forum!

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:23:38 +0000

idnedhelper, on the basis of the URL you originally included in your comment (which I have removed), I can only assume your comment is spam. However, you do raise an interesting point, but by “this forum” do you mean Sciencebase.com or ChemUnPub? There is no poll creation plugin on Sciencebase, although it may be something I’d consider installing if there were enough interest from readers. if you are asking about CUP, I’d ask your question again on that site instead, as users there will be much better placed to advise you.

By: sciencebase

sciencebase — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:59:47 +0000

Additional thoughts from The Times’ science editor Mark Henderson on the launch of a “negative” clinical trials journal make interesting reading.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8123-2186841,00.html

By: sciencebase

sciencebase — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:02:30 +0000

ChemUnPub owner Francesco Mazzini had this to say in response:

“I totally agree. It takes time to write even three-four lines of an experimental procedure, I know it very well, and obviosuly it is the last thing you think about when you are in working hours, and it passes by once you are free from work. In this “launch phase” I am relying on students and researchers who are used to writing papers and have more freedom generally than company research workers.

The forum structure was chosen both for the ease of posting (on the author’s side) and setting it up (my side). I already thought of a database structure, but first I have to see if such an effort is worthwhile, and this depends on the number of posts.

From my point of view, at the moment I have to alert as many people as possible. I started with my friends in Italy and other countries, registering in some chemical forums and mailing lists, and in the last two days I got some results (around ten new members not connected to my friends).

One point should be made clear: it is not intended to be a chemistry forum, but a forum database of experiences…it will be of interest to anyone who passes through the site to share their experience, as the general rule of all scientific (and not scientific) journals.”

By: sciencebase

sciencebase — Wed, 17 May 2006 13:56:54 +0000

I asked Michael Engel to expand on his pointer to this site and he emailed the following comment:

“I see a mountain of hard work lurking around the corner (for the author). If he doesn’t promote and promote and promote, it will fail – as most of the people (and scientists) don’t contribute anything to things like mailing lists (like my former list PHTHALO) or forums. I am not sure yet, if a forum is a good structure for such an idea (but it’s better than nothing) as it will be difficult to search. A database would have been better – but that is certainly difficult to setup.”