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Goodbye PLOS Blogs, Welcome Github Pages
This is the last Gobbledygook post on PLOS Blogs, and at the same time the first post at the new...
New DataCite / ORCID Integration Tool
A new service allows researchers to add research datasets – and other content with DataCite DOIs, including all figshare content – to their ORCID profile by integrating with the DataCite Metadata Store. The tool is an adaption (or...
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...
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...
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...