Month: August 2009
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Watch Mendeley and PLoS on the Web! Science Hour with Leo Laporte & Dr. Kiki
Update: Archive of the show can be viewed or downloaded from here http://odtv.me/2009/08/dr-kikis-science-hour-14/ This Thursday I’ll be joining the managing editor of PLoS ONE, Pete Binfield, live on Science Hour hosted by Leo Laporte and Dr. Kiki. We’ll be discussing the future of academic publishing, science on the Web, or anything else that comes up.…
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Improved Google Scholar lookup
Just a quick update: the Google Scholar lookup in Mendeley Desktop will now return improved document details. We’ll continue to work on improving this but if you have got any suggestions let us know and we’ll look into it. As for other updates we are currently testing a portable Windows version of Mendeley Desktop which…
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Oy vey. Scientific discourse trainwreck.
As an addendum to Jason’s earlier post, here’s a story of scientific discourse gone horribly wrong. It would be funny if it wasn’t so.. somehow really not funny. How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 123 Easy Steps http://d.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=18773744&access_key=key-1md5zdvu8wpysalhsmqg&page=1&version=1&viewMode= Via björn.brembs.blog.
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Who is killing science on the Web? Publishers or Scientists?
Killing the advancement of science on the Web is killing the advancement of science as a whole. A few weeks ago I attended a panel session at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco called, “Making the Web work for science.” (Video wrap-up here) Really, the focus was on how to get scientists to put their…
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