Gute Usability von Websites trägt maßgeblich zu einem zufriedenen digitalen Besuch von Nutzenden bei. Seit Mai 2025 verfügt die Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek RheinMain aus Wiesbaden über eine neue Website. Der Prozess der Umgestaltung war lang und es gab ein großes Ziel: Die Bedürfnisse der Zielgruppen identifizieren und die Usability der HLB Website auf das nächste Level heben!
Here are a couple more backwards-headed raptor photos, courtesy of ceratopsian palaeontologist and home-brewing consultant Andy Farke: Here’s what he had to say about them: Your recent post spurred me to snap these photos of a burrowing owl doing backwards head things.
Vor etwas mehr als zwanzig Jahren wurde die LIBREAS von engagierten Studierenden des Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin gegründet, um eine Zeitschrift herauszubringen, deren Inhalte sie selbst interessiert und die sie selbst gerne lesen möchten.
Como los lectores sabrán, actualizo el blog cada 14 días, los jueves por la tarde, con independencia de la temporada del año, incluidos los periodos de vacaciones y feriados. Si embargo, desde la última entrada navideña del Glosario de crítica textual, publicada el 18 de diciembre, dejé de publicar una entrada que estaba programada...
Enriqueta Zuloaga, una vecina de Mendoza, Argentina le envió en 1867 un carta al gobernador de la provincia en la que le reclamaba la delineación que de su terreno había realizado el jefe del Departamento Topográfico.
At the 4th Ontologies4Chem Workshop in Limburg an der Lahn, I proposed an initial crosswalk between the Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM) and the Wikidata semantic mapping data model. This post describes the motivation for this proposal and the concrete implementation I’ve developed in sssom-pydantic.
Our next meeting is on Monday 2nd February at 2pm.
When I was perhaps five, I asked my mom where the soul was. She told me it was between the head and the heart. Not being particularly good at metaphor, I took this rather more literally than she intended. I worked out that anatomically, this would place the soul somewhere around the left shoulder and upper chest region. For years afterwards, I took enormous care of that area. I favoured my left side in playground scraps. I slept on my right.
We are pleased to announce that—effective 1st January 2026—we have made two changes to grant record registration fees that aim to accelerate adoption of Crossref’s Grant Linking System (GLS) and provide a two-year window of opportunity to increase the number and availability of open persistent grant identifiers and boost the
Ted Habermann, Metadata Game ChangersJargon and acronyms are well known culprits to understanding in the scientific literature and many scientific writing guidelines include “avoid jargon” and “spell out all acronyms”. One might expect that these guidelines would apply even more emphatically in the metadata realm, where the information space is prescribed and to some extent abbreviated.
As we step into the new year, we reflect on the achievements of the Europe PMC team in 2025. Celebrating key developments shaped by user feedback, implementation of cutting-edge AI solutions, and continued commitment to supporting open science.