Scientific Publishing Task Force – how the semantic web may help organizing...
According to Wikipedia, “the semantic web is expected to revolutionize scientific publishing, such as real-time publishing and sharing of experimental data on the Internet.” The W3C HCLS group’s...
View ArticleA hybrid mind mapping and reference management tool: Freemind scholar
Sciplore has produced an interesting hybrid between a mind mapping and reference management tool. Freemind Scholar adds two basic features over the excellent Freemind: you can have references (at this...
View ArticleGoogle Wave could fix collaborative editing and mail at the same time
The general agreement is that mail is broken. We all use it but kind of hate it too. Well, it seems that Google came up with a very good alternative (ambitious, and technically impressive): Google...
View ArticleHow to digitize your entire paper book collection
This post describes a very efficient way to digitize large amounts of books. Why is this important? If you are an academic you (1) have amassed a large collection of books and (2) are bounded to...
View Article10 tips to harness the hidden potential of Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha, the brainchild of Stephen Wolfram (who allegedly put its company to work on this project for several years before its official launch in May this year), has been out for a while now and...
View ArticleSpringerImages: Scientific images for the masses (of subscribers)
Springer launched yesterday a new service allowing users to search, browse, annotate and reuse scientific images from their huge database of publications. SpringerImages is a growing collection of...
View ArticleWho does Google think you are?
One of the themes we’ve been discussing here is the idea that prestige and attention are the main currencies of academia. So it only makes sense that you want your online presence to be an accessible...
View ArticleLaTeXSearch: 1M snippets in a searchable database
Springer announced last week the launch of LaTeXSearch.com, a free online service allowing users to search a huge database of LaTeX snippets from Springer journals and publications. This follows the...
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