Version 7 of the open source reference manager Zotero was released last Friday. Read the linked announcement for details, but the most excited feature for me is an improved built-in reader with ePub support. Zotero allows you to store metadata and full-text publications and while PDF is the standard format for journal articles and preprints, books (and book chapters) are more commonly distributed as ePub files.

"A sociedade pode pensar que seja um desafio atuar com pessoas em situação de rua, muitos têm preconceitos, receios, medos, inseguranças, etc. No entanto, são pessoas acolhedoras e só querem isso: serem acolhidas, serem ouvidas, terem voz, terem oportunidades para mudança de vida.", recorda a Profa. Dra. Daniela Fernanda Assis de Oliveira Spudeit, da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina.

Expediente Divulga-CI – Revista de Divulgação Científica em Ciência da Informação Volume 2, Número 8 – Agosto de 2024. Editada em julho de 2024. Última edição em agosto de 2024. Publicada em 15 de julho de 2024.

I jumped ship from Twitter following the Musk takeover in 2022. Seeking an alternative, I joined Mastodon and didn’t look back. Since then, I’ve enjoyed many wonderful interactions and conversations; and I feel a bit sad at what Twitter turned into.

This post is inspired by the Pharaoh exhibition at the NGV in Melbourne, Australia. This is a beautifully displayed exhibition of objects from the British Museum, London. It has all the trappings of a modern exhibition, beautiful lighting, a custom sound track, and lots of social media coverage. But I found it immensely frustrating to visit.

This post is cross-posted from Upstream: https://doi.org/10.54900/zks0k-pe034 I recently attended the FORCE2024 conference at UCLA. I’m a member of the board of directors of FORCE11, the parent organization for the conference, and the co-located FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI), which I was not able to attend this year but have taught at in the past.

Recently Yanina Bellini Saibene reminded usto update our Slack profile: After doing that I went on to updating my profile photos on the rOpenSciwebsite, which ended up teaching me a few git tricks I would like to share here.Thanks Maëlle Salmon for the encouragement, andSteffi LaZerte for reviewing this post.

Hace poco Yanina Bellini Saibene nos recordó actualizar el perfil de Slack: Después de hacer eso, decidí actualizar mis fotos de perfil en el sitio web de rOpenSci, y termine aprendiendo algunos trucos de git que voy a compartir acá. Gracias a Maëlle Salmon por motivarme a escribir este artículo y a Steffi LaZerte por revisarlo.

The conversation about advancing the open access transformation has been revitalized by the “Council Conclusions on High-Quality, Transparent, Open, Trustworthy, and Equitable Scholarly Publishing” issued by the EU Science Ministries in May 2023 (Council of the European Union 2023). In September 2023, we organized the conference “Community-Driven Open Access Publishing” as a satellite event of the Open Access Days 2023 (Bibliotheks- und

Google’s Groundbreaking AI Model Explained Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Google continues to stand at the forefront, consistently pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can achieve. One of their latest advancements, GEMMA2, represents a significant leap in AI capabilities. Let’s delve into the details of this new AI model by Google.