Metrics for scientific software
One of the challenges of collecting metrics for scholarly outputs is persistent identifiers. For journal articles the Digital Object Identifier...
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Please keep it simple: citations, links and references
In my last post I wrote about the importance of keeping things simple in scholarly publishing, today I want to...
Please keep it simple
Doing scientific research is becoming increasingly complex, both in terms of the tools and technologies used, and in the collaboration...
Fragment Identifiers and DOIs
Before all our content turned digital, we already used page numbers to describe a specific section of a book or...
One Ring to Rule them All
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Yesterday 60 years ago the first volume of the Lord of the Rings...
Don't Reinvent the Wheel
In a post last week I talked about roads and stagecoaches, and how work on scholarly infrastructure can often be...