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...
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Comment: the case for open preprints in biology
Last week Philippe Desjardins-Prouly et al. published the article The case for open preprints in biology – naturally as a preprint...
Some Thoughts on Beyond the Paper
Today the journal Nature has released a special on the Future of Publishing. It includes a lot of interesting reading, but I want to focus on the comment Beyond the Paper by Jason Priem. In the...
Additional Markdown we need in Scholarly Texts
Following up from my post last week, below is a suggested list of features that should be supported in documents...
Marketing for Scientists
The April issue of Nature Materials contains three articles that discuss marketing strategies for scientists. The Editorial (“The scientific marketplace”) introduces the topic and explains why scientists should consider marketing their work. The issue also contains...
Why I still like FriendFeed, why Twitter is important and other thoughts about Altmetrics
Altmetrics – tools to assess the impact of scholarly works based on alternative online measures such as bookmarks, links, blog posts,...