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Faculty of 1000: Interview with Richard Grant
Richard Grant, who needs no introduction here on Nature Network, has just moved to London to start a new job as information architect for Faculty of 1000. I took this opportunity to ask Richard a few...
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eXtyles: Interview with Elizabeth Blake and Bruce Rosenblum
Scientific papers are submitted to a journal as word processor files, usually in Microsoft Word format. After the paper is accepted for publication, the journal takes the manuscript and translates the...
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OAI-PMH: Interview with Tony Hammond
Most of us find, store and sometimes read scientific papers electronically. Although abstracts and fulltext papers are usually available as web pages in HTML format, PDF is clearly the preferred format...
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PLoS One: Interview with Peter Binfield
At SciBar Camp Palo Alto last month, Peter Binfield from PLoS ONE gave a very interesting presentation on Article-level metrics from the PLoS perspective. Particularly interesting was his announcement...
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Conference Blogging: Interview with Alex Knoll
Blogging is a great way to report from a scientific conference. This could be done either with regular blog posts written in the evening or after the conference, and/or live-blogging using tools such...
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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...
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Endnote: Interview with Jason Rollins
Reference management is a frequent topic on this blog. The last few years we have seen both a large increase in the number of available tools, but also big changes in how we use reference management...
View ArticleCitation Style Language: An Interview with Rintze Zelle and Ian Mulvany
Citation styles are one of the greater mysteries for the novice manuscript writer. There are numerous ways that authors, title, journal, etc. can be arranged and formatted (see examples below), and in...
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Figshare: Interview with Mark Hahnel
figshare allows researchers to publish all of their research outputs in seconds in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner. The service was started by Mark Hahnel last year while still a...
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PLoS Article-Level Metrics: Interview with Martin Fenner
This blog occasionally does interviews with people providing interesting tools for scholars. These interviews have always been among my favorite blog posts. This now is obviously an interview with...
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Why I still like FriendFeed, why Twitter is important and other thoughts...
Altmetrics – tools to assess the impact of scholarly works based on alternative online measures such as bookmarks, links, blog posts, etc. –have become a regular topic in this blog. The altmetrics...
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The April issue of Nature Materials contains three articles that discuss marketing strategies for scientists. The Editorial (“The scientific marketplace”) introduces the topic and explains why...
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Speaker Deck for Sharing Presentations
It has become common practice to make presentation slides available for those unable to attend in person, or for more in-depth review later. The most popular service to do this is of course Slideshare....
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Random notes from the altmetrics12 conference
Last week I attended the altmetrics12 workshop in Chicago. You can read all 11 abstracts here, and the conference had good Twitter coverage (using the hashtag #altmetrics12), at least until Twitter had...
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Visualizing tweets linking to a paper
DNA Barcoding the Native Flowering Plants and Conifers of Wales has been one of the most popular new PLoS ONE papers in June. In the paper Natasha de Vere et al. describe a DNA barcode resource that...
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Europe PubMed Central coming in November
The European Research Council on Friday announced that they will participate in the UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) open access repository service. They become the third European funder to join UKPMC, and...
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More fun with Visualizations
This has been another week working on visualizations. I have summarized some of the results in a blog post over at the PLoS API website. One of my current favorites is the dot chart. PLoS Computational...
View ArticleNeelie 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...
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What Users do with PLOS ONE Papers
Inspired by four recent blog posts and their comments (Comments at journal websites: just turn them off, Open Access and The Dramatic Growth of PLoS ONE, No Comment?, If you email it, they will...
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