Now with native comments
Since last year this blog is powered by the Ghost open source blogging platform. Two important and long-standing shortcomings of...
Martin Fenner
This blog turned 15 (years old) this month
The first post on this blog was published on August 3, 2007 (Open access may become mandatory for NIH-funded research)...
I spent the last five months in the hospital
In January I woke up one day and couldn't move my right arm and leg properly. As I...
A new membership model for the Front Matter blog
The Front Matter blog is launching a new membership model today. In August 2021 this blog started offering optional paid...
Starting 2022 with a new feature: full-text search for the Front Matter blog
Fresh into 2022, the Front Matter blog today is launching an important new feature: a full-text search of all blog...
Improving software metadata conversion by adding CFF support
In August GitHub added enhanced support for citation-file-format (CFF) to all GitHub repositories. As you can see in the chart...