Peter Murray-Rust

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Peter Murray-Rust
at Wikimania 2014
Born1941 (age 82–83)
Guildford, England
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Known for
AwardsHerman Skolnik Award
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisA structural investigation of some compounds showing charge-transfer properties (1969)
Peter Murray-Rust's voice
recorded July 2014
Websitewww-pmr.ch.cam.ac.uk

Peter Murray-Rust is a chemist currently working at the University of Cambridge. As well as his work in chemistry, Murray-Rust is also known for his support of open access and open data.

Education

He was educated at

Glaxo Group Research at Greenford to head Molecular Graphics,[1] Computational Chemistry and later protein structure determination. He was Professor of Pharmacy in the University of Nottingham from 1996 to 2000, setting up the Virtual School of Molecular Sciences. He is now Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at Churchill College, Cambridge
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Research

His research interests have involved the automated analysis of data in scientific publications, creation of virtual communities, e.g. The Virtual School of Natural Sciences in the Globewide Network Academy, and the

Open Knowledge International and a co-author of the Panton Principles for Open scientific data.[3] Together with a few other chemists, he was a founder member of the Blue Obelisk movement in 2005.[4][5][6]

In 2002, Peter Murray-Rust and his colleagues proposed an electronic repository for unpublished chemical data called the World Wide Molecular Matrix (WWMM). In January 2011, a symposium around his career and visions was organized, called Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future.[7][8][9][10] In 2011, he and Henry Rzepa were joint recipients of the Herman Skolnik Award of the American Chemical Society.[11] In 2014, he was awarded a Fellowship by the Shuttleworth Foundation to develop the automated mining of science from the literature.

In 2009 Murray-Rust coined the term "Doctor Who" model for the phenomenon exhibited by the Blue Obelisk project and other Open Science projects, where when a project leader does not have the resources to continue to lead a project (e.g. because he or she has moved to another university with other tasks), someone else will stand up to become the new leader and continue the project.[12][13] This is a reference to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which the main character periodically regenerates into a different form, which is played by a different actor.

As of 2014, Murray-Rust was granted a Fellowship by Shuttleworth Foundation in relation to the ContentMine project which uses machines to liberate 100,000,000 facts from the scientific literature.[14]

Activism

Murray-Rust is also known for his work on making scientific knowledge from literature freely available, and in such taking a stance against publishers that are not fully compliant with the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. In 2014, he actively raised awareness of glitches in the publishing system of Elsevier, where restrictions were imposed by Elsevier on the reuse of papers after the authors had paid Elsevier to make the paper freely available.[15]

References

  1. doi:10.1021/ja00316a034
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  2. doi:10.1021/ci990052b
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  3. ^ http://pantonprinciples.org/ Archived 22 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine Panton Principles for Open data in science
  4. PMID 16711717
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  5. PMID 21999342
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  6. ^ The Blue Obelisk, CDK News, 2005, 2, 43–46
  7. PMID 21999661
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  8. ^ CCL Archives, 2010, http://ccl.net/chemistry/resources/messages/2010/11/12.005-dir/
  9. ^ Meeting Archives and publications, 2011, http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/238409
  10. PMID 21999715
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  11. ^ CCL Archives, 2011, http://www.ccl.net/cgi-bin/ccl/message-new?2011+09+26+014
  12. ^ Glyn Moody, The Doctor Who Model of Open Source, 2009, http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.nl/2009/06/doctor-who-model-of-open-source.html
  13. ^ P. Murray-Rust, The Doctor Who Model of Open Source, 2009, http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2009/06/06/the-doctor-who-model-of-open-source/
  14. ^ http://contentmine.org/ Archived 31 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ Paul Jump, Elsevier: bumps on road to open access, Times Higher Education, 2014, http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/elsevier-bumps-on-road-to-open-access/2012238.article

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