Dept. of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY
B rcpm20@bath.ac.uk rossmounce.co.uk
@rmounce
rossmounce
ross-mounce
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
20052008
London
20052008
University of Bath
20142015
University of Bath
20122013
Publications
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
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
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
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
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
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
1. Mounce, R. and Wills, M. 2011. Phylogenetic position of Diania challenged. Nature DOI: 10.1038/nature10266
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
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Professional Service
Council Member for the Systematics Association 2012-present
Subject Editor for Biodiversity Data Journal (Pensoft) 2013-present
Organising Committee for OpenCon 2014 & 2015; Young Systematists Forum 2013, 2014 & 2015
Reviewer for BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Bioinformatics (OUP),
Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, ZooKeys
Dec. 2014
May 2011
Apr. 2011
Jul. 2009
Popular Media
Voice of Russia UK radio show
Discussing RCUK Open Access policy and academic publishing
Aug. 2012
Oct. 2012
References
{ Up to 3 references available on request
Apr. 2013