Web Tools for Searching the Biomedical Literature – part II
Ten days ago I mentioned a paper by Zhiyong Lu that gives an overview over the available web tools to...
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Web Tools for Searching the Biomedical Literature – part I
Zhiyong Lu recently published an excellent overview of the web tools that are currently available to search the biomedical literature. The article has also a companion web page that allows user to filter for the features...
Explaining the ORCID Principles
On Monday I gave a presentation about ORCID, based on the ORCID Principles. The slides are hopefully a good introduction to ORCID and the current status of the initiative. A good in-person update of the ORCID...
Please help the Nippon Science Support Network
The recent tragic events in Japan have made it difficult or impossible for many Japanese scientists to continue their work. The newly launched Nippon Science Support Network has therefore established a database of positions and stipends...
Direct links to figures and tables using component DOIs
We are all familiar with digital object identifiers (DOIs) provided by CrossRef to identify (and link to) journal articles. Some...
Zotero 2.1 released with support for CSL 1.0
Version 2.1 of the reference manager Zotero was released last Friday. The biggest change for me is the support of Citation Style Language (CSL) 1.0. CSL is an open XML-based standard for citations and...