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Jeff Rogers commented on our Google Scholar article. The original article can be found here. There has been no shortage of posts in this space devoted to discussions of open access educational resources and the possible future(s) of web-based academic publishing and research. A recent study detailed in a paper appearing in this month’s Journal . . . → Read More: Gaming Google Scholar: Academic Search Engine Spam In a previous paper we provided guidelines for scholars on optimizing research articles for academic search engines such as Google Scholar. Feedback in the academic community to these guidelines was diverse. Some were concerned researchers could use our guidelines to manipulate rankings of scientific articles and promote what we call ‘academic search engine spam’. To . . . → Read More: New publication: Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience Against it Today we released Beta 11 of SciPlore MindMapping. There is a number of new features, namely: New: Copy several BibTeX keys from different nodes at once New: Open the folder that contains the software’s log files via the menu New: Keyboard shortcuts for the most important functions New: Backup reminder (user is asked to activate . . . → Read More: Beta 11 of SciPlore MindMapping released I took a little video while soaring with my paraglider at the Dune de Pyla. Have fun watching it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRHqLktIMWw”>this
Most users of SciPlore MindMapping (including me) use JabRef to manage their references. However, I always was thinking about switching to Mendeley because they offer automatic extraction of metadata from PDFs which saves lots of time when creating your bibliography. But Mendeley is not that compatible with SciPlore MindMapping and has some other shortcomings, so . . . → Read More: JabRef + automatic metadata extraction from PDF files (like Mendeley) Today we released Beta 10 of SciPlore MindMapping. There are no new features but SciPlore MindMapping should run now smoothly with Linux and MacOS. I guess, there will be still some problems but you certainly will tell us if that’s the case (at least I hope so) :-) Download Beta 10 here. I am currently in Toronto presenting our new paper titled “On the Robustness of Google Scholar against Spam” at Hypertext 2010. The paper is about some experiments we did on Google Scholar to find out how reliable their citation data etc. is. The paper soon will be downloadable on our publication page but for now . . . → Read More: New Paper: On the Robustness of Google Scholar against Spam In June the ACM Hypertext 2010 will take place in Toronto. Some days ago I wanted to upload the camera ready versions of three papers being accepted at the conference. And… I was surprised. By email I got a link to a web page (namely http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/sigweb-ht/sigweb-ht.cfm?id=ht104, http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/sigweb-ht/sigweb-ht.cfm?id=ht105, and http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/sigweb-ht/sigweb-ht.cfm?id=ht121) on which I could upload my camera ready papers, specify the authors, keywords, etc. No password or other kind of authorization had to be entered. Now, guess what. I played around with the URL and tried, for instance, to open the following URLs in my browser. http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/sigweb-ht/sigweb-ht.cfm?id=ht100 http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/sigweb-ht/sigweb-ht.cfm?id=ht107 You can probably guess what happened: I could edit the details (and see the private email addresses the primary authors provided) and upload PDF files for the other papers being accepted at Hypertext just by changing the URL. That means, I could have added or modified the author list, changed the title or uploaded a modied PDF. The screenshot shows the user interface on which I could have changed the data for the paper “Dealing with the Video Tidal Wave: The Relevance of Expertise for Video Tagging” by Sara Darvish and Alvin Chin (here is a list of all papers being accepted at Hypertext 2010) In January we published our article about [intlink id="22" type="post"]Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO)[/intlink]. As expected, feedback varied strongly. Here are some of the opinions on ASEO: Search engine optimization (SEO) has a golden age in this internet era, but to use it in academic research, it sounds quite strange for me. After reading this . . . → Read More: Academic Search Engine Optimization: What others think about it |
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