BibApp: Mashups for Universities
Friday afternoon discussions can be dangerous. Last Friday I talked with Heinz Pampel from the Helmholtz Open Access Initiative via...
Martin Fenner
ResearcherID: Interview with Renny Guida
Open Researcher and Contributor ID or ORCID is a community effort to standardize researcher identification. The initiative was first announced last December, and is supported by a growing number of publishers, scholarly societies and academic institutions....
Standards for the Conduct of Science in the Information Age
Assuming our airports are again open next weekend, I will be attending a meeting organized by the NSF (National Science...
Editorial Peer Reviewers’ Recommendations at a General Medical Journal: Are They Reliable and Do Editors Care?
Peer review is central to how we evaluate science and therefore how journal papers, grants, and jobs are awarded. Peer...
Lst wk I had g8t fun @ #hcsmeucamp
Last Wednesday I attended the Health Care Social Media Camp in Berlin. Healthcare Social Media in Europe – #hcsmeu for short – is a community of healthcare twitterers and social media users from Europe, started in August 2009...
Let’s make science metrics more scientific
In the March 25 edition of Nature, Julia Lane, Program Director of the Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program...