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Two reviews of new reference manager ReadCube

Two reviews of new reference manager ReadCube

Today, Digital Science announced an investment in startup Labtiva. And Labtiva released a “community preview” of their reference manager ReadCube. The community preview is a free download for Windows and Mac, and this is the summary of my first impressions. You could write two different reviews about ReadCube. The first

Announcing ScienceCard

Announcing ScienceCard

Metrics for scholarly works are used for evaluation and discovery. The Journal Impact Factor is widely used, but is not the best tool to look at the metrics of an individual article. In the past few years we finally started to have the technology to do article-level metrics (citations, downloads,

Zotero 3.0 Beta released, works with Chrome and Safari

Zotero 3.0 Beta released, works with Chrome and Safari

The first beta of the reference manager Zotero 3.0 was released yesterday. The big news is that Zotero 3.0 no longer only runs within the Firefox browser, but is now also available as a standalone version similar to other reference managers. Zotero Connectors integrate with the Chrome and

Mendeley 1.0 released Today

Version 1.0 of the reference manager Mendeley was released today. In good Web 2.0 tradition it took three years from the first Beta release to the first “finished” product. I interviewed co-founder Victor Henning back in September 2008, and both the software and the company have gone a

Google Scholar Citations, Researcher Profiles, and why we need an Open Bibliography

Google Scholar Citations, Researcher Profiles, and why we need an Open Bibliography

Last week Google Scholar announced a new feature on the Google Scholar Blog: Google Scholar Citations. The stated purpose of this tool is to allow researchers to calculate their citation metrics, e.g. their Hirsch index (H-index). This is an interesting new service, that not only helps with calculating citation

Annotum: Publishing with WordPress soon coming to a journal near you

Last week the first Alpha version of Annotum was released. Annotum is “a scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress”. I first learned about Annotum at the Beyond the PDF workshop in January. One of the themes of the workshop was that we need better tools for authoring, reviewing

Three funding organizations will launch new open access journal

Three leading funding organizations today made this important announcement: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust announced today that they are to support a new, top-tier, open access journal for biomedical and life sciences research. Some features of the new journal: * open access * name