Tag: Public Library of Science
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Science Show-and-tell
Back in 2006, Moshe Pritsker thought to use video technology to capture and transmit the intricacies of life science research, facilitating both the understanding and reproduction of experiments and techniques. This idea of “letting scientists look over each other’s shoulders” led to the launch of JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, which is peer reviewed…
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When publishing a research paper, it's best to be sure.
About a week ago, I had the pleasure of attending Science Hack Day with about 150 other scientists and hackers. It was an amazingly fun event with people from all over the world coming together to build cool, quirky, and otherwise awesome things over the span of a weekend. It’s a sort of high holy…
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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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Journal of FUBAR and Negative Results
Last evening I attended a panel discussion entitled, “Making the Web work for Science” hosted by Science Commons. It was held at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco and moderated by Tim O’Reilly. On the panel were Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia; Stephen Friend, MD, PhD President, CEO and a Co-Founder of Sage; and John…
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Importers for Ebsco and ISI Web of Knowledge
After releasing support for PLoS – Public Library of Science last week we now updated our web importer again to support single article and search result pages for EBSCO Host and ISI Web of Knowledge. Just visit our importer page to add the bookmarklet to your browser.
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