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 |