Author Archives: Lenny Teytelman
Career Advice on PubChase
We are launching a “Career Advice” forum on PubChase. There is an interface to anonymously submit questions and we assembled a panel of good mentors so that a single question can have 2-3 experts replying to it. This is not … Continue reading
PubChase and Mendeley Synchronization
Since October, we have been working with Mendeley to implement synchronization with the users’ PubChase libraries. In your “library settings” on PubChase, you can now turn on the Mendeley sync. Any article you add to PubChase will show up in … Continue reading
Blog and Tweet to Market Your Research!
Marketing your final product is essential, be it in a start-up or a research group. As a partner at a top venture capital firm emphasized to us, viral adoption of apps and software is a myth1. Entrepreneurs either fail or … Continue reading
What hurts science - rejection of good or acceptance of bad?
Yesterday, Science published a story by John Bohannon about acceptance of a fake and deeply-flawed paper at open access journals, despite peer review. Disturbingly, 157 journals accepted the bogus article and only 98 rejected it. Scientists and some journalists swiftly pointed … Continue reading
Staying Current on Publications: PubChase or RSS?
We have just published an excellent guide by James Fraser on using RSS to find relevant new research papers. James does not believe that staying current on publications is really a problem that requires a service like PubChase to tackle … Continue reading
RSS Guide by James Fraser
[Also published on the lab website of James Fraser] Yesterday I got an email from a colleague: “Jaime - should I use RSS or Twitter to stay tuned into what is being published in different journals?” I was already primed … Continue reading
Lots of Open Access publishers, but how many readers?
When I started graduate school in 2003, PLOS Biology was just about to launch. There was no PLOS One and the fraction of publications in open access (OA) journals was miniscule. It is remarkable what the progress has been – … Continue reading
PubChase is now a publisher!
No, do not worry, we are not adding one more drop to the bottomless journal sea (though if you use PubChase to find relevant literature, the number of journals should not matter much). Instead, we are inaugurating a weekly author’s … Continue reading
Organize And Access Your Research Literature
You can now store for free yor article PDFs, for easy access from anywhere through your PubChase library. You can save up to 300 articles at no cost, with a “pay what you wish” subscription if you need more space. Not … Continue reading
Welcome to PubChase - a search without a search
We have been quietly building PubChase for 9 months now. It’s so exciting to finally deliver it! In addition to this website, it is available on mobile devices from the iTunes, Google, and Amazon app stores. While we love our … Continue reading