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Meeting Report

Meeting Report

Reports from conferences and workshops of interest to the scholarly community.

What is a reference manager?

Next month I will participate in the Innovations in Reference Management event organized by Owen Stevens from the Open University. My own presentation has the title Trends in Reference Management, where I will try to focus on three emerging areas: * Use of mobile devices for reference management (e.g. Nature.

Action points

Action points

Last weekend was BibCamp Hannover, a “BarCamp for librarians and other hackers”. If you understand German, you can read about the sessions, discussions and people in the Blog, Wiki, and FriendFeed Room. And Steffi Suhr wrote a nice post about The most beautiful library in the world in her Nature

Standards for the Conduct of Science in the Information Age

Standards for the Conduct of Science in the Information Age

Assuming our airports are again open next weekend, I will be attending a meeting organized by the NSF (National Science Foundation) and EuroHORCS (European Heads of Research Councils) on Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age in Washington on April 26. We have been asked to submit a

Lst wk I had g8t fun @ #hcsmeucamp

Last Wednesday I attended the Health Care Social Media Camp in Berlin. Healthcare Social Media in Europe – #hcsmeu for short – is a community of healthcare twitterers and social media users from Europe, started in August 2009 by Silja Chouquet and Andrew Spong. I am interested in #hcsmeu not only because

There is still so much to learn in reference management

There is still so much to learn in reference management

Last week Lambert Heller and myself did a two-day workshop Reference Management in Times of Web 2.0 for a group of German librarians. We introduced and tested the following five programs: * RefWorks * Zotero * CiteULike * Mendeley * Endnote The goal of the workshop was to introduce the participants to the Web

ScienceOnline2010 – I wish I was there

ScienceOnline2010 just finished a few hours ago, and from what everyone was saying it was yet another wonderful meeting. I attended last year and moderated a session called Providing public health and medical information to all, but unfortunately could not come this year. News about ScienceOnline2010 are all over the

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