Momentum for Article-Level Metrics: New Uses
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Reproduced here from the original June 11, 2014 PLOS Newsroom…
Reproduced here from the original June 11, 2014 PLOS Newsroom…
Photo by Flickr user Peter Taylor (CC BY-NC 2.0) In…
PubMedication: do you get your best ideas in the Pub? CC-BY-ND image via trombone65 on Flickr. Many people claim they get all…
While I have some important external meetings this coming week, including one with Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Mark…
While I have some important external meetings this coming week, including one with Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Mark…
Delete. Creative Commons licensed picture by Vitor Sá – Virgu via Flickr.com News that Reed Elsevier is in talks to buy Mendeley.
As well as a variety of strategic meetings in Swindon, last week included an interesting meeting on sustainable energy in the…
The blog has had an enjoyable holiday, including a series of highland and island walks centred around Oban, where the much-dreade…
Last week I had a useful day at The Genome Analysis Centre, discussing the scientific opportunities for the Norwich Research…
The understanding of biochemical and other networks is an important part of systems biology, and I enjoyed attending an…
The internet seems to have transformed all industries except one: scholarly communication. Jason Priem has studied academics…
Mendeley is a handy piece of desktop and web software for managing and sharing research papers [1]. This popular tool has been…
Daniel Cohen is giving a talk in Cambridge today on The Social Life of Digital Libraries, abstract below: The digitization of…
The act of finding and reading published research has changed so much in the last 10-20 years. Ask any old-timer - anyone over…
After our return from the US following the ‘big data’ mission I described last week, it was very much catching-up and…
It is not news that the online digital availability of increasing amounts of text and data are likely to change the entire…
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organisation committed to making the world’s scientific and medical…
As Vince Smith once put it [1] data are the fuel of Science: “The fabric of science is changing, driven by a revolution in…
Dear Nature NetworkersAs producers and consumers of web technology, I thought the following event might be of interest:The XML…
The XML Summer School returns this year at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford from 20th-25th September 2009. As always, it’s packed with…
Industrial or white biotechnology refers to the harnessing of cells and enzymes to make products of interest (that may be the…
In the DCC we are trying to work out ways that we can present tools to the community that help you to help us, to help you. The…
For anyone who missed the original bioinformatics seminar I’ll be doing a repeat of the “Defrosting the Digital Library” talk…
Today – May 7, 2009 – is the 50th Anniversary of C.P. Snow’s famous Rede Lecture published as The Two Cultures. In this, he…
“Actually, the orgy of fact extraction in which everybody is currently engaged has, like most consumer economies, accumulated a…
Details of an upcoming gig, The Scholarly Communication Landscape in Manchester on the 23rd of April 2009. If you are…
Much has been written about the extent of the contribution that is expected of the author of a scientific paper, and I shall…
Their exists a large amount of online libraries. Their…
The availability of many records in digital format opens up many possibilities, not least in bibliometrics, a subject that I…
Duncan Hull, et al., Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web, PLoS Computational Biology…
Duncan Hull, Steve R. Pettifer and Douglas B. Kell (2008) wrote an interesting review on the current state of personal digital…
Duncan Hull alerted me to his paper "Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web" (PloS…
Duncan Hull and company have just published a thorough (210 references..) review of the current state of scientific digital…
Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation…
With apologies to Jonathan Swift: “Great sites have little sites upon their back to bite ‘em And little sites have lesser sites…