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...
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Literate Blogging
Literate programming is a methodology that combines a programming language with a documentation language, thereby making programs more robust, more portable, more easily maintained, and arguably more fun to write than programs that are written only...
Continuous Publishing
Earlier this week Björn Brembs wrote in a blog post (What Is The Difference Between Text, Data And Code?): To...
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...
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In October I published an essay on Article-Level Metrics (ALM) in PLOS Biology (Fenner, 2013). The essay is a good...
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...