On Saturday, June 8th – exactly a month from today – the PLOS San Francisco offices will host a workshop/hackathon about using markdown for science. A lot of people are experimenting with markdown for authoring scientific articles...
Article-Level Metrics provide new ways to look at the impact of scholarly research. Two important concepts are a) to track...
Cameron Neylon yesterday wrote a great blog post about appropriate business models for shared scholarly communications infrastructure. This is an area I have also been thinking about a lot recently, and in this post I want...
Earlier this week the rumors that started in January became official: Elsevier is buying Mendeley (see also here). A lot has been written about this announcement, in particular about the fear that Mendeley as a product...
Last week Philippe Desjardins-Prouly et al. published the article The case for open preprints in biology – naturally as a preprint...
PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALM) are a great set of data (available via API and as monthly data dump) for some...
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