Academic Search Engine Optimization – make your articles better findable
The Journal of Scholarly Publishing just published our article Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO): Optimizing Scholarly Literature for Google Scholar and Co. The article introduces and...
View ArticleVideo of SciPlore MindMapping: Manage your Literature, PDFs (inlcuding...
We created a video (YouTube) which explains how our mind mapping software SciPlore MindMapping can be used to manage your literature, PDFs and references. Have a look at it, we really think that this...
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How to write a thesis (Bachelor, Master, or PhD) and which software tools to use
Available translations: Chinese (thanks to Chen Feng) | Portuguese (thanks to Marcelo Cruz dos Santos) | Russian (thanks to Sergey Loy) send us your translation Writing a thesis is a complex task. You...
View ArticleBeta 6 of SciPlore MindMapping released
Today we released Beta 6 of SciPore MindMapping. There are two major improvements: 1. BibTeX files created with Mendeley can now be used with SciPlore MindMapping 2. A PDF’s title is extracted from...
View ArticleAcademic Search Engine Optimization: What others think about it
In January we published our article about Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO). As expected, feedback varied strongly. Here are some of the opinions on ASEO: Search engine optimization (SEO) has...
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Hypertext 2010 Security Hole: All papers downloadable and editable by anyone...
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...
View ArticleNew Paper: On the Robustness of Google Scholar against Spam
Update: The final article is published. Please read 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...
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Beta 10 of SciPlore MindMapping released
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...
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JabRef + automatic metadata extraction from PDF files (like Mendeley)
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...
View ArticleBeta 11 of SciPlore MindMapping released
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...
View ArticleDo you trust Google Scholar?
Are you using Google Scholar? For finding scientific literature? For obtaining citation counts and publication lists of researchers? Have you ever thought about how trustworthy the information is you...
View ArticleBeta 12 and 13 of SciPlore MindMapping released
Beta 12 has many new features and improvements New: Incoming PDFs are now displayed in seperate window New: ‘Import All’ and ‘Import New’ Bookmarks Improved: Update of the monitoring node is now MUCH,...
View ArticleBeta 14 of SciPlore MindMapping is out: Import comments & highlighted text;...
We added some new features to SciPlore MindMapping Beta 14 that should help you a lot in managing your academic literature: Many users told us they would like not only to import bookmarks but comments...
View ArticleGood by FreeMind, welcome FreePlane
When we started the development of SciPlore MindMapping about a year ago we decided to use FreeMind as code base. That means we used FreeMind`s source code, modified it slightly, and added some new...
View ArticleHelp us finding a new name for “SciPlore MindMapping”
Over a year ago we started the development of SciPlore MindMapping. So far the response in the academic community was overwhelming. We get almost daily emails from users telling us how much they like...
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Off Topic: Which email provider do scientists and students like most? Answer:...
I just wondered which email provider students and scientists prefer. To find out I wrote a little script which analyzed the domain names of SciPlore MindMapping`s newsletter subscribers (there are 1375...
View ArticleSciPlore MindMapping now provides literature recommendations (Beta 15)
Beta 15 of SciPlore MindMapping is out. The major new feature is the literature recommendation module. Based on your mind maps SciPlore MindMapping provides you with literature recommendations that can...
View ArticleThe new name of SciPlore MindMapping is…“Docear”
One month ago we asked our users to send us suggestions for a new name for SciPlore MindMapping. We got a few dozens of ideas and would like to thank all the participants very very much for their great...
View ArticleBe a Guinea Pig: Take Part in a User Study and Help Improving SciPlore...
We – that is the SciPlore team and Hilah Geer (Head librarian at the Oslo School of Management) – need your help! Hilah is a fan of SciPlore and for her research she wants to perform a user study...
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Lots of great news: Beta 16 ready for release, Cooperation with Freeplane...
There is lots of great news. Beta 16 is about to be released (Preview for Blog readers available now) The last Beta was released in March, quite a while ago. We were really busy with preparing the...
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