Direct links to figures and tables using component DOIs
We are all familiar with digital object identifiers (DOIs) provided by CrossRef to identify (and link to) journal articles. Some...
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Zotero 2.1 released with support for CSL 1.0
Version 2.1 of the reference manager Zotero was released last Friday. The biggest change for me is the support of Citation Style Language (CSL) 1.0. CSL is an open XML-based standard for citations and...
A very brief history of Scholarly HTML
The history of HTML begins 1989 at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva. Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau...
Discussing science with microformats
The best and quickest discussions of a scientific paper now sometimes happen in science blogs rather than in the peer-reviewed literature. Whereas we have a number of scholarly databases that track citations between papers, we don’...
Papers 2: the reference manager made with love
The reference management software Papers has been a regular topic on this blog. I wrote about Papers in one of...
The Trouble with Bibliographies
The bibliography of a scholarly paper is interesting and important reading material. You can see whether the authors have cited...