I grit my teeth every time I visit Web of Science, because I don't like the stranglehold that Thomson-Reuters has onthe world of bibliographic databases, at least in the fields I'm familiar with. I did finally break down and buy a copy of Endnote X2 when I got a new MacBook Pro a couple of months ago,1 but I did it while holding my nose.
I'm holding my nose again this morning.
I'm holding my nose again this morning.
See that badge to the left? I just joined ResearcherID.com. It's a new service from our "friends" at Thomson-Reuters. Click on it, and you'll get taken to a page with some more information about me and my published research. ResearcherID.com unfortunately looks as if it might be rather useful, so the beast may be getting even fatter.
1You read that right. If you know me, you know that I've been a DOS/Windoze/Linux guy since the start (well since I left the PDP-11 behind). But the new Intel Macs are just too elegant and smooth to resist. With VMWare Fusion I can still run the Windoze programs I need to run, and with the terminal window and bash, I can still do all of the scripting I like in the terminal window. Sweet!
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