Action points
Last weekend was BibCamp Hannover, a “BarCamp for librarians and other hackers”. If you understand German, you can read about...
Martin Fenner
BibApp: Mashups for Universities
Friday afternoon discussions can be dangerous. Last Friday I talked with Heinz Pampel from the Helmholtz Open Access Initiative via...
ResearcherID: Interview with Renny Guida
Open Researcher and Contributor ID or ORCID is a community effort to standardize researcher identification. The initiative was first announced last December, and is supported by a growing number of publishers, scholarly societies and academic institutions....
Standards for the Conduct of Science in the Information Age
Assuming our airports are again open next weekend, I will be attending a meeting organized by the NSF (National Science...
Editorial Peer Reviewers’ Recommendations at a General Medical Journal: Are They Reliable and Do Editors Care?
Peer review is central to how we evaluate science and therefore how journal papers, grants, and jobs are awarded. Peer...
Lst wk I had g8t fun @ #hcsmeucamp
Last Wednesday I attended the Health Care Social Media Camp in Berlin. Healthcare Social Media in Europe – #hcsmeu for short – is a community of healthcare twitterers and social media users from Europe, started in August 2009...