Metrics and attribution: my thoughts for the panel at the ORCID-Dryad symposium on research attribution
This Thursday I take part in a panel discussion at the Joint ORCID – Dryad Symposium on Research Attribution. Together with...
Martin Fenner
New DataCite / ORCID Integration Tool
A new service allows researchers to add research datasets – and other content with DataCite DOIs, including all figshare content – to their ORCID profile by integrating with the DataCite Metadata Store. The tool is an adaption (or...
Announcing Markdown for Science Workshop on June 8th
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...
Baby steps toward better metrics
Article-Level Metrics provide new ways to look at the impact of scholarly research. Two important concepts are a) to track...
You should be able to install my software in less than one hour – or why DevOps is important
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...
Mendeley and Elsevier
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...