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March 2012
- Marketing for Scientists
- Why I still like FriendFeed, why Twitter is important and other thoughts about Altmetrics
February 2012
- A Few Questions about Science Spam
- Crowdsourcing the analysis of scholarly tweets
- Reference Manager Papers now available for Windows
- Figshare: Interview with Mark Hahnel
- The Personalized Journal
January 2012
- Zotero 3.0 Released
- Say Hello to F1000 Research
- Altmetrics - Where Do We Go From Here?
- Sloan Foundation funds Columbia and Mendeley to develop a Citation-Style Language Editor
- Altmetrics to go - mobile version of ScienceCard available
- CrowdoMeter goes Mobile
December 2011
- CrowdoMeter - or trying to understand tweets about journal papers
- Introducing Annotum to Wordpress Bloggers
November 2011
- ScienceCard named Finalist in Mendeley/PLoS API Binary Battle
- Why BibTeX, RIS and Endnote XML will soon be broken
October 2011
- Wikis, Q&As and Cookbooks
- Book Review: Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen
- Data citation how-to guide released by Digital Curation Centre
- Serving shortDOIs
- Two reviews of new reference manager ReadCube
- The trouble with DOIs
September 2011
August 2011
- On Microattribution
- Zotero 3.0 Beta released, works with Chrome and Safari
- Personal names around the world
- Book Review: Visualize This by Nathan Yau
July 2011
- Mendeley 1.0 released Today
- Google Scholar Citations, Researcher Profiles, and why we need an Open Bibliography
- How to formally cite a blog post
- Did you receive spam because you published a paper?
- Conference microblogging: FriendFeed, Twitter and now Google+ ?
June 2011
- Annotum: Publishing with Wordpress soon coming to a journal near you
- Three funding organizations will launch new open access journal
- Is Schema.org about a technical standard or about something else?
- Please join us for the Science Online London Conference in September
- Schema.org for Scholarly HTML?
May 2011
April 2011
- Web Tools for Searching the Biomedical Literature - part I
- Explaining the ORCID Principles
- Please help the Nippon Science Support Network
March 2011
- Direct links to figures and tables using component DOIs
- Zotero 2.1 released with support for CSL 1.0
- A very brief history of Scholarly HTML
- Discussing science with microformats
- Papers 2: the reference manager made with love
- The Trouble with Bibliographies
February 2011
- How to use Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) in your blog posts
- OPDS: RSS for ePub or how to distribute ePub files
- Discussing WordPress for Scientists
- ePub WordPress plugin released today
January 2011
- Nature.com iPad app released today
- Beyond the PDF … is ePub
- DataCite: visit their new blog
- Having fun with citations at ScienceOnline2011
- New journal "Nature ONE" launched today
- Now in your DeepDyve store: Nature papers to rent
- HTML5 or messages from beyond the PDF
- Author Identifier Overview
December 2010
- Wordpress for Reference Management
- New and emerging technologies for reference software
- Paperpile: an open source reference manager for Mac and Linux
- Digital Science launched: closing the gap between science and technology?
- Occam's Typewriter: please welcome a new science blogging network
- Submission Fees for Open Access Journals?
- Citations are links, so where is the problem?
- Blogging Beyond the PDF
- Medical Information Matters
November 2010
- Repositories: Researcher Perspective
- Researchers’ reasons for publishing their work
- Evolving English at the British Library
- Making your study public before you start can be fun
- UK PubMed Central explained in Nucleic Acids Research Paper
- Scientific Attribution Presentation
- Registration for ScienceOnline2011 starts today
- Beyond the PDF - it is time for a workshop
- More Gobbledygook at PLoS Blogs
- An ORCID discussion group for researchers
October 2010
- NCBI adds searchable images database
- Some thoughts on principles for scientific attribution
- Self-motivated vs. mandated archiving
- Having an impact (factor) and other stories from Gregory Petsko
- Helping researchers create scholarly content
- New in PLoS ONE: Citation rates of self-selected vs. mandated Open Access
- Start Open Access Week with Kick-Off Video
- In which I suggest a preprint archive for clinical trials
- Today I started a new blogging network
- Nature.com iPhone app updated
- Survey asks for feedback about ORCID unique researcher identifier
- New on Arxiv: first report of SOAP open access publishing project
- Paper published: Reference Management meets Web 2.0
- Reference Management with the iPad
- ReaderMeter: researcher-level metrics based on readership
- Advice for scientists who want to become Wikipedia editors
September 2010
- Why can't I reuse these tables and figures?
- Paper retractions do not induce citation mutations
- Citation Style Language: An Interview with Rintze Zelle and Ian Mulvany
- Zotero soon is Everywhere
- Letter to The Scientist
- Update of Reference Manager Overview Chart
- And who are you?
- Starting a reading list for Goobledygook
- Peer Review at the Scholarly Kitchen
- Data is the new soil
- Lanyrd: a new Twitter mashup for conferences
- Peer review is not a piece of cake
- BioMed Central drafts position statement on open data
- ORCID as unique author identifier: what is it good for and should we worry or be happy?
- The Great Science Online London Tweetup
- Flipboard: PLoS BLOGs on the iPad
- Unmeasurable Science
- Welcome to Gobbledygook
- Bye-Bye Nature Network
August 2010
- Elsevier launches SciVerse, integrates ScienceDirect + Scopus + More
- Supplementary Information: should I stay or should I go?
- Book Review: Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
- What comes after Google Wave?
- Endnote: Interview with Jason Rollins
- Flipboard changes the way we use Twitter
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
- ResearcherID: Interview with Renny Guida
- Standards for the Conduct of Science in the Information Age
- Editorial Peer Reviewers' Recommendations at a General Medical Journal: Are They Reliable and Do Editors Care?
- Lst wk I had g8t fun @ #hcsmeucamp
March 2010
- Let’s make science metrics more scientific
- Cancer and the media
- Chances and problems of doing science online
- How do researchers use online journals?
- Movable Type Test
- German Research Foundation says that numbers aren't everything
February 2010
- There is still so much to learn in reference management
- ScienceFeed: Interview with Ijad Madisch
- Happy third birthday Nature Network!
- Nature.com iPhone app in pictures
- A digital preservation primer for scientists
January 2010
- Scientists and librarians: friend or foe?
- ScienceOnline2010 - I wish I was there
- How do you read papers? 2010 will be different
- ORCID or how to build a unique identifier for scientists in 10 easy steps
December 2009
- Science and Sustainability
- Increased cancer risk following computed tomography scans
- On giving a talk about Open Access in my department
November 2009
- Nature Communications: Interview with Lesley Anson
- Publication bias in clinical trials
- Moving article-level metrics forward
- UK PubMed Central: Interview with Phil Vaughan
October 2009
- Open Access Week: a researcher’s perspective part II
- Open Access Week: a researcher’s perspective
- Thoughts on the PubMed Redesign
- Conference Blogging: Interview with Alex Knoll
September 2009
- German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Session V and VII
- German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Session VI
- German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Session Plant Genetics II
- German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Session III
- German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Session Cellular Genetic Mechanisms
- German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Session IV
- German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Evolution Session
- German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Development Session
- German Genetics Conference 2009: Session II
- German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Session I
- German Genetics Society Meeting 2009: Introduction
August 2009
- Thoughts on the Science Online London Conference
- Streamosphere: Interview with Euan Adie
- PLoS One: Interview with Peter Binfield
- Recipe: Distributing papers for a journal club
- Bibliographic Management meets Web 2.0
July 2009
- How does the article of the future look like?
- Using Google Wave for a week – it’s still great!
- The Value of Peer Review
- I was at SciBarCamp Palo Alto
June 2009
- Recipe: Receiving Journal Table of Contents Automatically
- How to close the digital divide among scientists
- Why do we go to conferences?
May 2009
- Google Wave – don’t forget the scientists
- OAI-PMH: Interview with Tony Hammond
- What is the right reference manager for you?
- eXtyles: Interview with Elizabeth Blake and Bruce Rosenblum
April 2009
- Faculty of 1000: Interview with Richard Grant
- A few questions about author identifiers: the answers
- Popularity of online reference managers
- A few questions about author identifiers
March 2009
- Twitter for Peer Review
- Editorial Manager: Interview with Richard Wynne
- Word processor support in citation managers: Is there a better way?
- Reference Manager Overview
- Zotero: Interview with Trevor Owens
February 2009
- Lemon8-XML: Interview with MJ Suhonos
- Papers for iPhone released – time for more poetry
- Interview with Geoffrey Bilder
- Mutation, selection and metastasis
January 2009
- Interview with Kevin Emamy
- Interview with Moshe Pritsker
- ScienceOnline09: Providing public health and medical information to all
- What science is worth shouting about?
December 2008
November 2008
- Why do we blog and other important questions, answered by 34 science bloggers
- What are the right numbers for JUPITER?
- Some answers for Henry Gee
- Interview with Pablo Fernicola
- How do you read papers?
October 2008
- Book Review: Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- Open Access - what's in it for me?
- Someone who should have won a Nobel Prize
- Interview with Alexander Griekspoor
September 2008
- New ways to look at your presentation
- How to lure (German) researchers back to Germany
- It's time for Conference 2.0
- Interview with Victor Henning from Mendeley
August 2008
- Science blogging is the new email
- London Science Tour in Pictures
- Edublogging for beginners
- Science Blogging in German
- We need markup for science blogs
- Looking back on a year of gobbledygook
- FDAAA: Push to open data in clinical medicine
- Article downloads and citations of open access papers
July 2008
- First authorship by women in a German medical journal
- Edublogging at Science Blogging 2008: London
- Do online journals narrow science and scholarship?
- Why is genetics so difficult for students to learn?
- Mouse models of human cancer and the need for more translational research
- In which I became a conference blogger
- Nobel blogging?
June 2008
- I will participate in the Elsevier Article 2.0 Contest
- Online reference managers: not quite there yet
- My Paper Writing Dream Machine 1.0
- I like poster sessions
- How technology can help you to survive a meeting
May 2008
- Microsoft stops Live Search Academic
- Why local hubs in Nature Network are important
- Scientific meetings need more bloggers
- Designer debacles and other misdemeanors
- Web 2.0 for Scientists: Where are the Applications?
- Publish or Perish: no longer just a buzzword
- When calls for papers go wrong
April 2008
- Considering posting your paper in a repository? Think again
- ResearcherID now with Mashups
- On Guest authors and Ghostwriters
- Public Access Week: Personal Summary
- Public Access Week: Who could read my papers?
- Public Access Week: How do we do it in Germany?
- Public Access Week: New NIH Public Access Policy starts Today
- What can Erythopoetin do for you?
March 2008
- Pubmed and other Annoyances in the Paper Writing Process
- Is Wikipedia for Scientists?
- Six degrees of separation on Nature Network
- Is Web 2.0 failing in Biology?
- What is a PhD in Germany?
- Happy Pi Day
- How to COPE with uniform requirements
- Experimental Travel
- Are posters worth the effort?
February 2008
- Should Peer Review be confidential?
- An easy online list of all your publications
- Are names important?
- How Nature Network changed my life
- Using RNA interference to identify genes that protect from cancer
- Just Science starts tomorrow
January 2008
- Duplicate Papers: another trick to improve your publication record
- Scientific writers can help publish good papers
- Thomson Scientific launches ResearcherID to uniquely identify authors
- Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac released
- Should all papers be published in English?
- Science 2.0: the Scientific American perspective
- Is Google Scholar use declining?
- Tired of Impact Factors? Try the SJR indicator
December 2007
- Mandatory open access for NIH-funded research signed into law
- Writing a paper with Buzzword
- Frustrations of a scientist
November 2007
- Can a workshop improve your scientific writing?
- How many authors makes a good paper?
- Your next paper could be computer-generated
- A case for Goobledygook
- New version of Papers software released
- STIX: Fonts for electronic and print publishing
October 2007
- Poor media coverage of cancer research: are blogs one answer?
- U.S. Senate passed bill with NIH open access mandate
- Nature in Nazi Germany 70 years ago: no open access
- German Max Planck Society cancels licensing agreement with Springer
- Do you know the Flesch score of your papers?
- Adobe Share and Microsoft Office Live Workspace announced today
September 2007
- Books about scientific writing
- Notes of a scientist from RailsConf Europe
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute pays for Open Access in Springer journals
- More on online writing tools - Buzzword is different
- You can now share Powerpoint presentations online with Google Presently
- Could you write your next paper within the manuscript submission system?
- OncologySTAT: free access to journal articles from Elsevier oncology journals
- Could you write your next paper with Google Docs?
August 2007
- PRISM - lobbying against open access
- Endnote X1 for Macintosh released
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) becomes BioMed Central member
- Do you know your Hirsch number?
- iWork 08 ready for scientists?
- Yale University drops Biomed Central membership – BMC responds
- Yale University drops Biomed Central membership
- Open access may become mandatory for NIH-funded research
