New journal “Nature ONE” launched today
It’s very unusual for me to post two blog posts in a single day, and even more so when both posts are based on press releases by the same organization. But this is important news...
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HTML5 or messages from beyond the PDF
In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee and others started HTML and the world wide web to facilitate scientific communications at CERN, the...
Author Identifier Overview
Today I posted the pre-print of a paper titled Author Identifier Overview that I submitted to the journal Libreas. This is the abstract: Unique identifiers for scholarly authors are still not commonly used, but provide a...
WordPress for Reference Management
One of the more complicated aspects of scientific writing is reference management – an important limitation of online collaborative tools such as Google Docs. I have argued before that WordPress has the potential to become a great...
Paperpile: an open source reference manager for Mac and Linux
Last week the first public beta (version 0.5) of Paperpile was released (available for Mac and Linux). Paperpile is...
New and emerging technologies for reference software
Jason Rollins gave a presentation with that topic at the recent STM Innovations Seminar in London. The video of his presentation has now been made available by River Valley TV, and his slides are here. Jason...