Friday, February 10, 2012

Brief Article in Library Connect

A while back I wrote a brief article - an editorial comment, really - for the professional newsletter "Library Connect." The web version of this article has recently been featured on the publisher's website:

http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/roles-professional-development/2011-12/structural-change-and-librarianship

I would love to hear comments on this...

Monday, January 30, 2012

Open Science Resources for R

Just came across a set of packages under development for R that provide interface to open source resources for science: http://ropensci.org .

Examples include Taxize, which provides an R interface to a variety of (species) taxonomic databases and rMendeley, which provides an interface to the Mendeley online citation system.