Thoughts on the PubMed Redesign
It was Anna Kushnir who started it all. Frustrated with the limitations of PubMed when finishing her PhD thesis, she...
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How does the article of the future look like?
Last year Elsevier started the Article 2.0 Contest and asked for the best ideas on how research articles should be presented on the web. The winners were announced March 31: * Inigo Surguy from 67 Bricks...
How to close the digital divide among scientists
The term digital divide usually describes the troubling gap between those who use computers and the Internet and those who do not (Wikipedia). Many if not most scientists are experienced users of computers and the internet,...
What is the right reference manager for you?
Reference managers are essential tools to read and write scholarly papers. In the last few years we have seen both a number of new reference managers (most of them web-based), but also a trend for the...
Popularity of online reference managers
Now that we have a number of online reference managers to choose from, I thought it would be interesting to look at their popularity – both in absolute numbers of visitors and the in changes during the...
A few questions about author identifiers
The scientific articles we write are uniquely identified by Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). Many people believe that we also need unique identifiers for the authors of those articles. Some of the arguments why author identifiers could...