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myScience: “social software” for scientists
With apologies to Jonathan Swift: “Great sites have little sites upon their back to bite ‘em And little sites have lesser sites, and so ad infinitum…” So what happened was, Carole Goble asked on the...
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If Science was an Olympic Sport…
A fictional scene from the future: The Olympic games, London 2012. A new candidate sport is on trial, joining skateboarding, rugby and golf at their debut Olympic games. It is challenging discipline...
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Defrosting the Digital Library
Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web We started writing this paper [1] over a year ago, so it’s great to see it finally published today. Here is the abstract: “Many scientists now manage the...
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Michael Ley on Digital Bibliographies
Michael Ley is visiting Manchester this week, he will be doing a seminar on Wednesday 3rd June, here are some details for anyone who is interested in attending: Date: 3rd Jun 2009 Title: DBLP: How the...
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Journal Fire: Bonfire of the Vanity Journals?
Fire by John Curley, available via Creative Commons license. When I first heard about Journal Fire, I thought, Great! someone is going to take all the closed-access scientific journals and make a big...
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Impact Factor Boxing 2012
Rocky Balboa, Philadelphia, PA. Creative Commons licensed picture by seng1011 (steve eng) on Flickr. [This post is part of an ongoing series about impact factors] In the world of abused performance...
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