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...
Martin Fenner
Comment: the case for open preprints in biology
Last week Philippe Desjardins-Prouly et al. published the article The case for open preprints in biology – naturally as a preprint...
Using d3.js to visualize Article-Level Metrics over time
PLOS Article-Level Metrics (ALM) are a great set of data (available via API and as monthly data dump) for some...
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...
The Price of Innovation – my Thoughts for Beyond the PDF
The Beyond the PDF Conference is currently taking place in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, I am unable to attend in person this...
Some Thoughts on Beyond the Paper
Today the journal Nature has released a special on the Future of Publishing. It includes a lot of interesting reading, but I want to focus on the comment Beyond the Paper by Jason Priem. In the...