ProQuest's UMI Dissertation Publishing is pretty much the distributor of dissertations and theses in the US and Canada (beyond an auth...

In my previous post , I outlined the (in my opinion) glory days and slow change (some might even say decline) of email-based lists such as ...

No doubt, the internet has changed the way we do paleontology. Email allows faster collaborations among workers at widespread institutions, ...

While I'm currently on vacation, I've also been thinking hard about a "major" upcoming post on the role of blogs in scient...

The lawsuit by Thomson Reuters against Zotero , the free bibliographic plug-in for Firefox, has been dismissed. Read more about it here .

After all of the commotion over " Ida ," I'm happy to point out a new, thought-provoking paper in PLoS ONE that perhaps has...

Postings have been slow lately, as we enter the busy field season. I have a few comments to respond to, and a few posts in the works. For no...