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1. Book Review
1. Books about scientific writing
2. Experimental Travel
3. Book Review: Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
4. Book Review: Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
5. Book Review: Visualize This by Nathan Yau
6. Book Review: Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen
2. Chart
1. Why can’t I reuse these tables and figures?
2. Researchers’ reasons for publishing their work
3. Crowdsourcing the analysis of scholarly tweets
4. Visualizing tweets linking to a paper
5. More fun with Visualizations
6. What Users do with PLOS ONE Papers
7. Using d3.js to visualize Article-Level Metrics over time
8. Creating charts with Datawrapper
9. Visualizing Scholarly Content
10. Open Scholarly Metrics for the Journal of Open Source Software
3. Feature
1. Do you know your Hirsch number?
2. Could you write your next paper with Google Docs?
3. Could you write your next paper within the manuscript submission system?
4. More on online writing tools – Buzzword is different
5. Do you know the Flesch score of your papers?
6. Nature in Nazi Germany 70 years ago: no open access
7. Your next paper could be computer-generated
8. Can a workshop improve your scientific writing?
9. How many authors makes a good paper?
10. Writing a paper with Buzzword
11. Is Google Scholar use declining?
12. Science 2.0: the Scientific American perspective
13. Thomson Scientific launches ResearcherID to uniquely identify authors
14. Scientific writers can help publish good papers
15. Duplicate Papers: another trick to improve your publication record
4. Interviews
1. Mendeley: Interview with Victor Henning
2. Papers: Interview with Alexander Griekspoor
3. NLM DTD: Interview with Pablo Fernicola
4. Some answers for Henry Gee
5. Why do we blog and other important questions, answered by 34 science bloggers
6. JoVE: Interview with Moshe Pritsker
7. CiteULike: Interview with Kevin Emamy
8. Author Identifiers: Interview with Geoffrey Bilder
9. Lemon8-XML: Interview with MJ Suhonos
10. Zotero: Interview with Trevor Owens
11. Editorial Manager: Interview with Richard Wynne
12. Faculty of 1000: Interview with Richard Grant
13. eXtyles: Interview with Elizabeth Blake and Bruce Rosenblum
14. OAI-PMH: Interview with Tony Hammond
15. PLoS One: Interview with Peter Binfield
5. Markdown
1. Six Misunderstandings about Scholarly Markdown
2. Introducing the Scholarly Markdown Bundle
6. Meeting Report
1. You can now share Powerpoint presentations online with Google Presently
2. Notes of a scientist from RailsConf Europe
3. Are posters worth the effort?
4. Scientific meetings need more bloggers
5. How technology can help you to survive a meeting
6. I like poster sessions
7. Nobel blogging?
8. In which I became a conference blogger
9. Mouse models of human cancer and the need for more translational research
10. Why is genetics so difficult for students to learn?
11. Edublogging at Science Blogging 2008: London
12. London Science Tour in Pictures
13. Science blogging is the new email
14. It's time for Conference 2.0
15. How to lure (German) researchers back to Germany
7. Metadata
1. Mendeley 1.0 released Today
2. Sloan Foundation funds Columbia and Mendeley to develop a Citation-Style Language Editor
3. ORCID has launched. What’s next?
4. re3data.org: registry of research data repositories launched
5. Metadata in Scholarly Markdown
6. CSL is more than citation styles
7. From Markdown to JATS XML in one Step
8. CommonMark and the Future of Scholarly Markdown
9. Human-readable and machine-readable Persistent Identifiers
10. Component DOIs Revisited
11. Digging into Metadata using R
12. Using YAML Frontmatter with CSV
13. Announcing Data-Level Metrics in DataCite Labs
14. Differences between ORCID and DataCite Metadata
15. Contributor Information in DataCite Metadata
8. News
1. Open access may become mandatory for NIH-funded research
2. Yale University drops Biomed Central membership
3. Yale University drops Biomed Central membership – BMC responds
4. iWork 08 ready for scientists?
5. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) becomes BioMed Central member
6. Endnote X1 for Macintosh released
7. PRISM – lobbying against open access
8. OncologySTAT: free access to journal articles from Elsevier oncology journals
9. Howard Hughes Medical Institute pays for Open Access in Springer journals
10. Adobe Share and Microsoft Office Live Workspace announced today
11. German Max Planck Society cancels licensing agreement with Springer
12. U.S. Senate passed bill with NIH open access mandate
13. STIX: Fonts for electronic and print publishing
14. New version of Papers software released
15. A case for Goobledygook
9. Newsletter
1. Rogue Scholar Newsletter February 2025
2. Rogue Scholar Newsletter June 2025
10. Open Infrastructure
1. You should be able to install my software in less than one hour – or why DevOps is important
2. Software Citation Workflows
3. Explaining the DataCite/ORCID Auto-update
4. Announcing the DataCite Profiles Service
5. Launching the DataCite Status Page
6. Relaunching DataCite Search
7. Announcing DataCite DOI Fabrica
8. DataCite's New Search
9. The DataCite GraphQL API is now open for (pre-release) business
10. Announcing the new Member API
11. 2020 Strategic Priorities for Services and Infrastructure
12. The DataCite MDC Stack
13. DataCite Commons - Exploiting the Power of PIDs and the PID Graph
14. DataCite Commons at your service
15. The DataCite Technology Stack

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