Feb 8, 2008
Some time ago, chemist Adam Azman contacted me to ask if I knew of a free or open source chemistry spellchecker custom dictionary available for word processors. Unfortunately, I didn’t. A quick search revealed only paid-for dictionaries. I thought a free tool would be very useful and so did Adam and so he set about creating his own chemistry dictionary, from scratch.
Version 1.0 was originally hosted on Chemspy and is now available …
Jan 29, 2008
As a journalist, I receive a lot of press releases that cite “forthcoming” papers. Depending on the publisher one can usually find the paper in a pre-press state on their website. However, it’s often the case that the DOI does not go live at the same time as the embargo expires on the press release, and so I might legitimately publish an article about the research I cannot use the DOI as the reference and …
Jan 16, 2008
The US’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a Public Access Policy that is set to become mandatory following President Bush’s approval on Dec 26th 2007. This change will mean that NIH-funded researchers will be obliged to submit an electronic version of any of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, as soon as the paper has been accepted for publication in a journal.
Many researchers are pleased with the move and Peter Suber outlines the …
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