Today I started a new blogging network
In the last few weeks I haven’t seen any announcement for a new science blogging network (the last one...
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Nature.com iPhone app updated
Earlier this year I wrote about the Nature.com iPhone application that was released in February. Two weeks ago the app was updated with the following changes: * Access to abstracts from additional journals: Nature Genetics, Nature...
Survey asks for feedback about ORCID unique researcher identifier
The ORCID initiative for unique researcher identifiers yesterday started a survey that everybody interested in ORCID should fill out. The...
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...
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...
Zotero soon is Everywhere
Whereas most reference managers are either standalone applications and/or web-based, Zotero works as a Firefox plugin. This approach has many advantages, but is not for everybody. So today Zotero announced Zotero Everywhere: * A browser...