Archive for the 'scholarly communication' Category

Hermes-0.9.11 released

Friday, September 8th, 2006

This version managed to convert 160 out of the first 254 from a month of arxiv/math articles, a ratio of 0.63. The articles drawing diagrams or pictures (e.g. using the xy package or similar) were not convertible by this version of Hermes, and I don’t plan on adding support for them anytime soon. The rest [...]

paying to be made freely available

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Oxford University Press Releases Open Access Results: “Oxford Open, which launched in July 2005, gives authors the option of paying for their research to be made freely available online immediately upon publication in the participating journals”. First, in my opinion, this is not open-access, I already explained why. Briefly, this model is, in fact, an [...]

Hermes 0.9.10 released

Friday, July 28th, 2006

This release is a step towards handling longtables appropriately (however, the longtable model Hermes will be able to convert has to have the caption and label at the beginning of the environment, followed by \, like this: begin{longtable} caption{…} label{…} \ the & rest \ of & it\ end{longtable} This version managed to convert 32 [...]