Registration for ScienceOnline2011 starts today
Registration for the ScienceOnline2011 conference starts today at 12 noon EST. This is the fifth annual conference on science and...
Martin Fenner
New on Arxiv: first report of SOAP open access publishing project
Practically all papers in high-energy physics (> 90% since the late 1990s) are first published on the ArXiv preprint server. Several related disciplines also have a long ArXiv tradition. But ArXiv is also an excellent source...
Paper published: Reference Management meets Web 2.0
Cellular Therapy and Transplantation today published my paper Reference Management meets Web 2.0. Regular readers of this blog probably know about most of the things I talk about in the paper, but I hope it...
Reference Management with the iPad
The iPad was released six months ago, and we already have several reference managers available for the platform. Reading the PDF of a scientific paper on an iPad is a positive experience, and to me very...
Beyond the PDF – it is time for a workshop
PDF has become the standard way we consume scientific papers, but in fact is not a good format for this...
ReaderMeter: researcher-level metrics based on readership
In a blog post last week, Dario Taraborelli officially announced ReaderMeter. ReaderMeter takes the usage data from reference managers (starting with Mendeley) to analyze the impact of publications by a particular author. ReaderMeter is a welcome...