There will probably always be a need for metrics like impact factor so that non-experts can estimate the significance of a scientist’s publications. These metrics are problematic, as we all know.
Interestingly, the relationship between an…
Figshare is an online database for storing figures, data, and papers. It’s been around for a while, but recently its really been taking off.
–You can post images, or entire paper PDFs. Also datasets.
–It’s citable. Useful…
Post publication peer review has yet to really take off, but Labrigger hopes it does. One of the newest sites is PubPeer.
PubPeer does it right, allowing for anonymity. This is important in order to…
Hubbian is an alternative interface for browsing the abstracts for the upcoming Society for Neuroscience meeting. It tracks abstracts views and has an interface for comments and voting. It’s a product of four…
New analysis in PNAS is used to support several new conclusions:
Fraud is increasing. “The percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased 10-fold since 1975.”
“…for articles in which the reason for…
That’s who is credited with creating Boston-NeuroTalks (look at the bottom of their page). It turns out that Boston’s a bit of a college town, and thus it’s difficult to keep up with all…
Enrico Stefani’s lab at UCLA has a couple of crack engineers on board, Yong Wu and Pedro Felipe Gardeazábal Rodríguez. These two fellows built a custom STED system and have documented the setup on …
Writing a first draft is almost a completely different sport compared to editing and revising. It’s the most creative part of the writing effort. The work flow incorporates outlines, research notes, references, organization, re-organization, and…
Oldest Reading hard copy tables of content. Pleasent, but impractical.
Older Checking out the updates for Index Medicus. Totally reasonable. In 1988.
Old Getting eTOCs emailed to you. Welcome to the year…
Springer is starting a new open access journal called “Scio Cell Biology”. It’s intended to be the first of what they hope will be a whole family of “Scio”-branded journals. They’re a gold open…
These two sites have a bunch of poster design tips, case studies, and other links.
Designing conference posters
Better Posters
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Nature just published a 4-page perspective article on the important of releasing the source code for programs used in scientific research. The authors emphasize the importance of reproducibility for results that…
Perhaps you’ve heard about the Elsevier Boycott aka the Cost of Knowledge. I’m not going to rehash the problem we all know so well. But here are a few links I wanted to share….
Visual.ly recently posted a list of the top visualizations of 2011. This is a map of the world in which Twitter tweets…
Like the Mayan astronomers over 600 years before him, Tycho Brahe was a data factory. A data factory in the same vein as the…
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