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Interviews with interesting people in scholarly communication.

Dryad: Interview with Jen Gibson

Dryad: Interview with Jen Gibson

In October Jen Gibson started as the new Executive Director for the Dryad Data Repository. I used the opportunity to ask Jen a few questions about Dryad, challenges with data sharing, and ideas about moving Dryad forward. I was particularly interested in the interview as I served on the Dryad

PLoS Article-Level Metrics: Interview with Martin Fenner

PLoS Article-Level Metrics: Interview with Martin Fenner

This blog occasionally does interviews with people providing interesting tools for scholars. These interviews have always been among my favorite blog posts. This now is obviously an interview with myself, but I felt this is the best format to explain some important news. Starting May 16 I will be working

Figshare: Interview with Mark Hahnel

Figshare: Interview with Mark Hahnel

figshare allows researchers to publish all of their research outputs in seconds in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner. The service was started by Mark Hahnel last year while still a PhD student. Mark joined Digital Science to work on figshare in September and last month relaunched a much

Citation Style Language: Interview with Rintze Zelle and Ian Mulvany

Citation styles are one of the greater mysteries for the novice manuscript writer. There are numerous ways that authors, title, journal, etc. can be arranged and formatted (see examples below), and in bibliographies citations can be ordered either alphabetically or by order of appearance in the text. Laemmli UK. Cleavage

Endnote: Interview with Jason Rollins

Reference management is a frequent topic on this blog. The last few years we have seen both a large increase in the number of available tools, but also big changes in how we use reference management software. But for many of us the first reference management software was Endnote. I

ResearcherID: Interview with Renny Guida

Open Researcher and Contributor ID or ORCID is a community effort to standardize researcher identification. The initiative was first announced last December, and is supported by a growing number of publishers, scholarly societies and academic institutions. Thomson Reuters is not only one of the founding members of the initiative, but

ScienceFeed: Interview with Ijad Madisch

Microblogging is blogging of short text messages, photos or other media and is best exemplified by Twitter. Twitter use has grown tremendously in 2009, and this also includes many scientists.1 FriendFeed is a another microblogging tool that not only allows sending of short text messages, but connects them together