Scientists and librarians: friend or foe?
Following the ScienceOnline2010 conference, librarian Dorothea Salo wrote on her blog: This disconnect is the number one threat to science...
Martin Fenner
ScienceOnline2010 – I wish I was there
ScienceOnline2010 just finished a few hours ago, and from what everyone was saying it was yet another wonderful meeting. I attended last year and moderated a session called Providing public health and medical information to all,...
How do you read papers? 2010 will be different
In November 2008 I wrote a blog post called How do you read papers? The blog post was actually about different strategies to find interesting papers, e.g. browsing journal tables of content (TOC), different search...
ORCID or how to build a unique identifier for scientists in 10 easy steps
ORCID stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID and was announced in early December. This blog post tries to summarize some of the problems that have to be solved to develop a unique identifier for scientists....
Science and Sustainability
Sustainability in science is nothing new. The term sustainability science was probably first used in 2001 (see Wikipedia entry), and the title of this blog post was already used by a 2002 editorial in Science. There...
Increased cancer risk following computed tomography scans
Two papers (this and this) and an editorial in the latest issue of Archives of Internal Medicine examine the cancer...