Mendeley 1.0 released Today
Version 1.0 of the reference manager Mendeley was released today. In good Web 2.0 tradition it took three years from the first Beta release to the first “finished” product. I interviewed co-founder Victor Henning...
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How to formally cite a blog post
Other blog posts often provide important background material for your own posts, and they are typically cited by inline links...
Did you receive spam because you published a paper?
Brendan Thomas has published an interesting paper that looks at author email addresses in the PubMed database of biomedical literature. Email addresses of first authors have been added to PubMed since 1996, and they can be...
Conference microblogging: FriendFeed, Twitter and now Google+ ?
Blogging is a great format to report from conferences. The regular blog format works best for posts written at the end of the day – unless you are typing really fast. Microblogging, i.e. a number of...
Annotum: Publishing with WordPress soon coming to a journal near you
Last week the first Alpha version of Annotum was released. Annotum is “a scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress”. I first learned about Annotum at the Beyond the PDF workshop in January. One of...
Three funding organizations will launch new open access journal
Three leading funding organizations today made this important announcement: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust announced today that they are to support a new, top-tier, open access journal for...