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Interviews with interesting people in scholarly communication.

Nature Communications: Interview with Lesley Anson

Nature Communications is a new journal that will launch in Spring 2010. The journal will publish papers in all areas of the physical, chemical and biological sciences and is open for submissions. The Nature Publishing Group publishes one fully open access journal (Molecular Systems Biology) and more than ten journals

UK PubMed Central: Interview with Phil Vaughan

UK PubMed Central: Interview with Phil Vaughan

PubMed Central was launched in February 2000 by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a free digital archive of journal articles. Just as PubMed, PubMed Central covers research in the life sciences, but not other areas of research, e.g. engineering, physical sciences or astronomy. Some journal

Conference Blogging: Interview with Alex Knoll

Conference Blogging: Interview with Alex Knoll

Blogging is a great way to report from a scientific conference. This could be done either with regular blog posts written in the evening or after the conference, and/or live-blogging using tools such as Friendfeed or Twitter. One or more blogging scientists can not only add a unique perspective

Streamosphere: Interview with Euan Adie

Streamosphere: Interview with Euan Adie

Euan Adie in June announced the Streamosphere service on the Nascent blog: Welcome to the Streamosphere. His simple explanation of what Streamosphere does: Streamosphere lets you track scientific discussion on the web, in real time. The Nascent blog post explains Streamosphere in more detail, in another post from July Euan

PLoS One: Interview with Peter Binfield

PLoS One: Interview with Peter Binfield

At SciBar Camp Palo Alto last month, Peter Binfield from PLoS ONE gave a very interesting presentation on Article-level metrics from the PLoS perspective. Particularly interesting was his announcement that PLoS journals will provide usage data (HTML pageviews, PDF and XML downloads) for all their articles in September. Usage data,

OAI-PMH: Interview with Tony Hammond

Most of us find, store and sometimes read scientific papers electronically. Although abstracts and full-text papers are usually available as web pages in HTML format, PDF is clearly the preferred format for storing and printing papers. But publishing scientific papers in electronic form obviously requires more than providing the content

eXtyles: Interview with Elizabeth Blake and Bruce Rosenblum

Scientific papers are submitted to a journal as word processor files, usually in Microsoft Word format. After the paper is accepted for publication, the journal takes the manuscript and translates the text into a format that is better suited for publication online and/or in print. XML and the NLM