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Dept. of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY
B rcpm20@bath.ac.uk rossmounce.co.uk
@rmounce
rossmounce
ross-mounce ORCID: 0000-0002-3520-2046
Linux-loving data wrangler with a passion for reproducible research, text & data mining, and innovation in
academic publishing. Im most at home collaborating on projects in distributed, version-controlled environments
such as GitHub & Bitbucket. I enjoy using social media as a powerful tool to bring change.
London
20082009
London
20052008
University of Bath
20142015
University of Bath
20122013
Publications
In total, at least 57 citations so far | Google Scholar h-index: 4 | ImpactStory profile for altmetrics data
14. Mounce, R. 2015. Dark Research: information content in many modern research papers is not easily
discoverable online. PeerJ PrePrints DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.773v1 >1000 views
13. Mounce, R. 2014. Open Data and Palaeontology. In: S. A. Moore (ed.) Issues in Open Research Data.
Pp. 151164. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: 10.5334/ban.j
12. Murray-Rust, P., Smith-Unna, R., and Mounce, R. 2014. AMI-diagram: Mining facts from images. D-Lib
Magazine 20(11/12) DOI: 10.1045/november14-murray-rust
11. Mounce, R. 2014. The right to read is the right to mine: Text and data mining copyright exceptions
introduced in the UK. LSE Impact Blog invited, popular blog post
10. Vos, R., Biserkov, J., Balech, B., Beard, N., Blissett, M., Brenninkmeijer, C., van Dooren, T., Eades,
D., Gosline, G., Groom, Q., Hamann, T., Hettling, H., Hoehndorf, R., Holleman, A., Hovenkamp, P.,
Kelbert, P., King, D., Kirkup, D., Lammers, Y., DeMeulemeester, T., Mietchen, D., Miller, J., Mounce,
R., Nicolson, N., Page, R., Pawlik, A., Pereira, S., Penev, L., Richards, K., Sautter, G., Shorthouse, D.,
Thtinen, M., Weiland, C., Williams, A., and Sierra, S. 2014. Enriched biodiversity data as a resource and
service. Biodiversity Data Journal DOI: 10.3897/bdj.2.e1125 2 citations & >2000 views
9. Poisot, T., Mounce R., and Gravel, D. 2013. Moving toward a sustainable ecological science: dont let
data go to waste! Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 6(2) DOI: 10.4033/iee.2013.6b.14.f 10 citations
8. Mounce R. and Janies, D. 2013. Synergistic Sharing of Data and Tools to Enable Team Science. In: J.
Zander & P.J. Mosterman (eds.) Computation for Humanity - Information Technology to Advance Society
CRC Press, pp. 437-447. full text
7. Mounce R. 2013. Easy steps towards open scholarship. LSE Impact Blog invited, popular blog post
6. Mounce, R. 2013. Open access and altmetrics: Distinct but complementary. Bulletin of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology 39:14-17. DOI: 10.1002/bult.2013.1720390406 23 citations
5. Garcia, A., Murray-Rust, P., Burns, G. A. P. C., Stevens, R., Tkaczyk, D., McLaughlin, C., Belin, A., Di Iorio,
A., Garcia, L., Gruson-Daniel, C., Mounce, R., Nuzzolese, A. G., Peroni, S., Spinks, J., VillazonTerrazas,
B., Corcho, O., Giraldo, O., and Wabiszewski, M. 2013. PDFJailbreak-a communal architecture for making
biomedical PDFs semantic. Proceedings of the BioLINK SIG full text 1 citation
4. Mounce, R. 2012. Twitter for systematists. The Systematist 34 full text
3. Mounce, R. 2012. Life as a Palaeontologist: Academia, the Internet and Creative Commons. Palaeontology
Online full text
2. Stoltzfus, A., OMeara, B., Whitacre, J., Mounce, R., Gillespie, E., Kumar, S., Rosauer, D., and Vos, R.
2012. Sharing and re-use of phylogenetic trees (and associated data) to facilitate synthesis. BMC Research
Notes DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-574 13 citations
1. Mounce, R. and Wills, M. 2011. Phylogenetic position of Diania challenged. Nature DOI: 10.1038/nature10266 8 citations & 2 Wikipedia mentions
Invited Talks
{ OpenCon 2014 (Washington, D.C.)
The State of Open Research Data
{ TDWG (Florence)
Sharing re-usable phylogenetic data: were not there yet
{ Licences For Europe: Text and Data Mining (European Commission, Brussels)
Content Mining: The Researcher Point-of-View
Professional Service
Council Member for the Systematics Association 2012-present
Editor Data (MDPI) 2015-present | Subject Editor for Biodiversity Data Journal (Pensoft) 2013-present
Organising Committee for OpenCon 2014 & 2015; Young Systematists Forum 2013, 2014 & 2015
Program Committee for Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets 2014
Reviewer for BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Bioinformatics (OUP),
Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, ZooKeys, PeerJ PrePrints
Publons reviewer profile
Dec. 2014
Nov. 2014
Oct. 2014
Oct. 2012
Apr. 2011
Aug. 2010
[Attended] 2nd EDIT Summer School (Muranska Planina National Park, Slovakia)
Field-based learning about taxonomy. Small mammals, plants and insects.
May 2011
Jul. 2009
Popular Media
Nature News, Ive been interviewed for quotes on:
Data sharing in palaeontology 2011-03-11 ; Open Access 2013-02-06 ; Text-mining 2013-03-20 ;
Careers advice 2013-03-27 ; Secret publishing deals 2014-06-26 ; A PLOS ONE paper 2015-01-29 ;
Sparrhos literature recommendation & discovery service 2014-09-03
Journal of Ecology podcast
An interview, recorded by Scott Chamberlain on open data and open access
Apr. 2013
Oct. 2012
Aug. 2012
References
{ Up to 3 references available on request