The scientific articles we write are uniquely identified by Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). Many people believe that we also need unique identifiers for the authors of those articles. Some of the arguments why author identifiers could...
A recent Nature News article by Geoff Brumfiel (Science journalism: Supplanting the old media?) has stirred up many interesting discussions...
Practically all scientific journals now use web-based systems for paper submissions and peer review. This saves the authors a lot of time compared to paper submissions by postal mail (until 15 years ago) or email...
Citations of the relevant literature are an essential feature of scientific papers. Reference Manager software helps adding these citations and...
18 April 2009: I've updated the chart and added 2collab, the “Read” category, sharing of PDF files, and...
Zotero is a reference manager built as an extension of the Firefox web browser. The best introduction to Zotero is...
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