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Continuous Publishing

Continuous Publishing

Earlier this week Björn Brembs wrote in a blog post (What Is The Difference Between Text, Data And Code?): To sum it up: our intellectual output today manifests itself in code, data and text. The post is about the importance of publication of data and software where currently the rewards

Are static Websites the Future or the Past?

Are static Websites the Future or the Past?

Last week I had a little discussion on Twitter about a great blog post by Zach Holman: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This. The post is not only fun to read, but also reminded me that it is now almost 20 years (1995) that I built my first website -

Six Misunderstandings about Scholarly Markdown

In this post I want to talk about some of the misunderstandings I frequently encounter when discussing markdown as a format for authoring scholarly documents. Scholars will always use Microsoft Word Microsoft Word is of course what almost all authors use in the life sciences and many other disciplines. One

From Markdown to JATS XML in one Step

The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is a NISO standard that defines a set of XML elements and attributes for tagging journal articles. JATS is not only used for fulltext content at PubMed Central (and JATS has evolved from the NLM Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite originally developed for PubMed

Example article with embedded code and data

In October I published an essay on Article-Level Metrics (ALM) in PLOS Biology (Fenner, 2013). The essay is a good introduction into Article-Level Metrics, and I am proud that it is part of the Tenth Anniversary PLOS Biology Collection. Like all PLOS content, the article was published with a Creative

What Can Article-Level Metrics Do for You?

Article-level metrics (ALMs) provide a wide range of metrics about the uptake of an individual journal article by the scientific community after publication. They include citations, usage statistics, discussions in online comments and social media, social bookmarking, and recommendations. In this essay, we describe why article-level metrics are an important

The Grammar of Scholarly Communication

The Grammar of Scholarly Communication

Authoring of scholarly articles is a recurring theme in this blog since it started in 2008. Authoring is still in desperate need for improvement, and nobody has convincingly figured out how to solve this problem. Authoring involves several steps, and it helps to think about them separately: * Writing. Manuscript writing,