Mendeley and Elsevier
Earlier this week the rumors that started in January became official: Elsevier is buying Mendeley (see also here). A lot has been written about this announcement, in particular about the fear that Mendeley as a product...
NewsA collection of 104 posts
New version of Article-Level Metrics app released
On Tuesday we released the latest version of the PLOS Article-Level Metrics application. As always, the source code is available at Github. The changes in this version focus on improving API performance, making it easier...
Bye-bye Google Reader
Yesterday Google announced that they will shut down Google Reader July 1st. In a way this announcement didn’t surprise me, as my own use of RSS readers has gone down in favor of news readers...
Announcing the ScienceCard Relaunch
Almost exactly a year ago (in the hackathon of the Science Online London 2011 conference) I started the ScienceCard project....
Bye bye Nature Network, welcome SciLogs.com
The science blogging network Nature Network is moving to a new home. Today SciLogs.com launched as a new home...
Neelie Kroes talks Open Science
Earlier this week the European Commission announced new measures towards open science. As part of the announcement interviews of three scientists with European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes were posted on YouTube. Here is a summary:...