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Mendeley and Elsevier

Earlier this week the rumors that started in January became official: Elsevier is buying Mendeley (see also here). A lot has been written about this announcement, in particular about the fear that Mendeley as a product and organization will turn into something not as open and collaborative as before. I

New version of Article-Level Metrics app released

On Tuesday we released the latest version of the PLOS Article-Level Metrics application. As always, the source code is available at Github. The changes in this version focus on improving API performance, making it easier to install the application, and RSS feeds for the most popular articles by source and

Bye-bye Google Reader

Yesterday Google announced that they will shut down Google Reader July 1st. In a way this announcement didn’t surprise me, as my own use of RSS readers has gone down in favor of news readers such as Flipboard and using Twitter as a discovery tool. And built-in support for

Announcing the ScienceCard Relaunch

Announcing the ScienceCard Relaunch

Almost exactly a year ago (in the hackathon of the Science Online London 2011 conference) I started the ScienceCard project. ScienceCard is a fork of the Open Source PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALM) code, personalizing the Article-Level Metrics. A lot has happened in the last 12 months, most importantly that I

Bye bye Nature Network, welcome SciLogs.com

Bye bye Nature Network, welcome SciLogs.com

The science blogging network Nature Network is moving to a new home. Today SciLogs.com launched as a new home for Nature Network bloggers. I have been blogging at Nature Network for three years, starting with my first blog post (Open access may become mandatory for NIH-funded research) almost exactly

Neelie Kroes talks Open Science

Earlier this week the European Commission announced new measures towards open science. As part of the announcement interviews of three scientists with European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes were posted on YouTube. Here is a summary:

Europe PubMed Central coming in November

Europe PubMed Central coming in November

The European Research Council on Friday announced that they will participate in the UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) open access repository service. They become the third European funder to join UKPMC, and the existing UKPMC funders have agreed to rebrand UKPMC as Europe PubMed Central (abbreviated to EPMC?) on November 1st.