Beyond the PDF – it is time for a workshop
PDF has become the standard way we consume scientific papers, but in fact is not a good format for this...
Meeting ReportA collection of 91 posts
Reports from conferences and workshops of interest to the scholarly community.
Data is the new soil
One of the main themes at the Science Online London Conference last weekend was data, with several sessions devoted to publishing primary research data, connecting scientific data from various resources, and a scientific experiment taking place...
Lanyrd: a new Twitter mashup for conferences
Lanyrd is a new social directory for conferences launched just a few days ago. It integrates with Twitter to allow you to list conferences you are organizing, speaking at, attending, or just following. It is a...
ORCID as unique author identifier: what is it good for and should we worry or be happy?
This was the title of the session with Geoff Bilder, Gudmundur Thorisson and myself at the Science Online London Conference...
The Great Science Online London Tweetup
The 3rd Annual Science Online London Conference took place last Friday and Saturday. For me it was again a fantastic event. Matt Brown is collecting all blog posts, pictures, videos, etc. over at this Nature Network...
Welcome to Gobbledygook
In his introductory post, PLoS community manager Brian Mossop talks about how PLoS Blogs came to life, and the lessons...