With the first excitement of ChatGPT dying down, people are catching up on the risk of relying on closed and…
For better or worse, APA is one of the most widely used citation styles in the cognitive sciences. One aspect…
Almost 13 years ago, in 2007, this blog started as a sub-site on my personal web page. It soon took…
Linguists will know John Benjamins as one of the nicer academic publishing houses, not quite so terrible as Elsevier or…
One of the key tasks scientists need to master is how to manage bibliographic information: collecting relevant literature, building a…
A while back some low quality citations started showing up on Google Scholar. They had titles like “CHAPTER 2 draft — email xyz@ab.edu”…
Today, Nature published a news feature by Cat Ferguson, Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky (Retraction Watch) in which I am…
One of the most common word-processing related task for academics is to generate PDF versions of documents — for sharing…
ELAN (lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan) is a widely used tool for the transcription, annotation, and analysis of audio and video data. This posting…
Duplicate detection is one of the things any serious reference manager should offer. Zotero users have been clamouring for it…
This long overdue instalment of Ideophones around the web features ideophones in the names of snappy new mobile apps from…
Here’s a quick tip for Zotero users who like to do their browsing in Chrome or Safari: you can install…
A new version of ELAN, the widely used tool for time-aligned annotation of linguistic data, was released today by the…
I keep forgetting the kind of simple edits that are so trivial to make in CSL styles. Here I catalogue…
Now online: SemiotiX New Series, an e-journal in semiotics. SemiotiX Bulletin has been around for several years, in hand-edited HTML.…
ELAN is a tool for creating complex annotations on video and audio resources. It’s great for doing the hard work…
Not all linguists may be aware of this, but since 2007 there has been a Unified Style Sheet for publications…
Dashboard Post-it is a simple plugin for WordPress 2.7 and higher that allows you to leave yourself or other authors…
It’s here. Zotero 1.5 beta. The new version comes with built-in synchronization, exports to more than 1100 citation styles, and…
Phonology Assistant (PA) is a free phonology tool by SIL that (as of version 3.0) works interactively with the data…