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Interviews with interesting people in scholarly communication.

Faculty of 1000: Interview with Richard Grant

Faculty of 1000: Interview with Richard Grant

Richard Grant, who needs no introduction here on Nature Network, has just moved to London to start a new job as information architect for Faculty of 1000. I took this opportunity to ask Richard a few questions not only about Faculty of 1000, but also about his role in the

Editorial Manager: Interview with Richard Wynne

Practically all scientific journals now use web-based systems for paper submissions and peer review. This saves the authors a lot of time compared to paper submissions by postal mail (until 15 years ago) or email (until 5 years ago). Unfortunately the submission process is still far from perfect and requires

Zotero: Interview with Trevor Owens

Zotero: Interview with Trevor Owens

Zotero is a reference manager built as an extension of the Firefox web browser. The best introduction to Zotero is probably this short video. Last week the newest version (1.5 beta) was announced on the Zotero blog. Among the most exciting new features is the synchronization of library data

Lemon8-XML: Interview with MJ Suhonos

Lemon8-XML: Interview with MJ Suhonos

Finishing an exciting research project and writing it up in a paper are the first two steps in getting your work published. The next two steps – submitting your paper to a journal and getting it through the review process – have changed dramatically in the last 10-15 years. No longer do

Author Identifiers: Interview with Geoffrey Bilder

Author Identifiers: Interview with Geoffrey Bilder

Almost exactly two years ago, CrossRef invited a number of people to discuss unique identifiers for researchers (CrossRef Author ID meeting). One year ago Thomson Reuters launched ResearcherID (Thomson Scientific launches ResearcherID to uniquely identify authors). And two months ago Phil Bourne and Lynn Fink wrote about this topic in

CiteULike: Interview with Kevin Emamy

One interesting session at ScienceOnline09 was Social networking for scientists, moderated by Cameron Neylon and Deepak Singh. We now have so many of these social networking sites, that it becomes difficult to differentiate between them and to see how they can interact with each other. One important category is social

JoVE: Interview with Moshe Pritsker

The ScienceOnline09 meeting last weekend not only had a number of interesting presentations and discussions, but even more importantly, was a great opportunity to personally interact with a great number of people that share your ideas and interests. It was the first time I personally met Moshe Pritsker, the CEO,