Personal names around the world
Yesterday I discovered (via a tweet by Owen Stephens) a very interesting document Personal names around the world that discusses...
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Did you receive spam because you published a paper?
Brendan Thomas has published an interesting paper that looks at author email addresses in the PubMed database of biomedical literature. Email addresses of first authors have been added to PubMed since 1996, and they can be...
Is Schema.org about a technical standard or about something else?
At the beginning of the month Google, Bing and Yahoo announced schema.org, a new initiative for structured markup on the web. Richard MacManus responded with a critical piece at ReadWriteWeb (Is Schema.org really a...
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...
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...
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...