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Reference Manager Papers now available for Windows

Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a big fan of the reference manager Papers – three years ago we even had a poetry contest when the iPhone version was first released. The strength of Papers has always been the very nice user interface, and Papers 2 released last

Zotero 3.0 Released

Zotero 3.0 Released

Zotero 3.0 was officially released today. The big change in version 3.0 of the reference manager is a standalone version that runs outside the Firefox browser. The first beta was released in August 2011.

Say Hello to F1000 Research

Faculty 1000 today announced F1000 Research, a new fully Open Access publishing program across biology and medicine, that will start publishing later this year. The default open access license is CC-BY, and CC0 for data. Important features include: 1. immediate publication 2. open, post-publication peer review 3. revisioning of work

Sloan Foundation funds Columbia and Mendeley to develop a Citation-Style Language Editor

The Sloan Foundation has awarded a $125,000 grant to Columbia University and Mendeley to fund the development of a Citation-Style Language (CSL) editor. CSL is a XML-based language to format citations and bibliographies, and is used by the reference managers Zotero, Mendeley and Papers, and in many other places.

Altmetrics to go – mobile version of ScienceCard available

Altmetrics to go – mobile version of ScienceCard available

ScienceCard is a web service that collects all scientific articles published by an author and displays their aggregate article-level metrics. Yesterday I added a mobile version to ScienceCard, simply browse to ScienceCard with your mobile phone or go to http://mobile.sciencecard.org. This is a first version based on

Introducing Annotum to WordPress Bloggers

Introducing Annotum to WordPress Bloggers

Version 1.0 of Annotum, the free WordPress theme for writing scholarly articles, was announced in late November. Back in June I wrote about the first public version of Annotum, but until now using Annotum was experimental. Annotum is available in the WordPress Themes Directory at WordPress.org (and has

ScienceCard named Finalist in Mendeley/PLoS API Binary Battle

ScienceCard named Finalist in Mendeley/PLoS API Binary Battle

I’m very proud to report that ScienceCard last week has been named finalist in the Mendeley/PLoS API Binary Battle. Not bad for a project that started only two months ago in a hackathon following the Science Online London conference and is done in my spare time. The winners