Sign in Subscribe

News

News

Rogue Scholar learns about communities

Rogue Scholar learns about communities

The Rogue Scholar infrastructure started migrating to InvenioRDM infrastructure a few weeks ago. This first phase of the migration will conclude on November 4 with the switch of the Rogue Scholar frontend (rogue-scholar.org) to InvenioRDM (to what is currently hosted at beta.rogue-scholar.org). InvenioRDM record For the most

Rogue Scholar migrates to InvenioRDM

Rogue Scholar migrates to InvenioRDM

In August v.12.0 of the InvenioRDM turn-key research data management repository was released, the first long-term support (LTS) release of the open source software since January 2023. This release enabled the migration of the Rogue Scholar infrastructure to the InvenioRDM platform, a process that will take the next

Zotero 7 released

Zotero 7 released

Version 7 of the open source reference manager Zotero was released last Friday. Read the linked announcement for details, but the most excited feature for me is an improved built-in reader with ePub support. Zotero allows you to store metadata and full-text publications and while PDF is the standard format

Rogue Scholar reaches another milestone and drops all registration fees

Rogue Scholar reaches another milestone and drops all registration fees

Earlier this month the Rogue Scholar science blog archive reached another important milestone: 100 science blogs registered and archived (with in total 16,179 posts). Rogue Scholar launched twelve months ago and this rate of adoption of the service has greatly surpassed my expectations. To celebrate this milestone, Rogue Scholar

Announcing InvenioRDM Starter Beta

Announcing InvenioRDM Starter Beta

Today I am happy to announce the first beta release of InvenioRDM Starter. InvenioRDM is an open source repository management platform developed by more than 25 organizations coordinated by CERN. The release of the next major version (v12.0) will happen in a few weeks, with the second release candidate

Blogs are not Journals

Blogs are not Journals

This week I updated the submission form for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive to clarify that participating blogs can't be journals (or books). Journals and journal articles have many similarities to blogs and blog posts, but they are something different, and out of scope for the Rogue

Going for DOI registration

Going for DOI registration

Starting this week, all DOIs for the Rogue Scholar blog posts are registered and updated using the new commonmeta Go library, replacing the commonmeta Python library. Authors and readers of blogs archived by Rogue Scholar shouldn't notice a difference, but going forward this change will make it easier