A paper could be so much more

It’s difficult to believe that scientific publishers still treat their journal articles as if they’re only printed on paper, even though the larger part of their readership accesses and reads the papers online. Web technology has come so far that online publications could provide new ways of interaction between author and reader and capture the [...]

Mendeley: Scientists got their own iTunes

Before I was using iTunes, organizing my music had to be done by hand. I created folders and subfolders that felt superficial and inaccurate: should that new Franz Ferdinand album go to  /Alternative/Britpop, or was /Rock/2000s a better place? I created and maintained playlists manually in Winamp. Needless to say, this took a lot of [...]