[ad_1] The Docear academic literature suite blends Freeplane and JabRef to make a comprehensive academic paper-writing application, with support for mind-mapping, citations, notes, and many other features. Writing a major scholarly paper can be a daunting undertaking. Turning a collection of scholarly research into a coherent paper requires a great deal of organizing and planning.…

[ad_1] The famous playwright George Bernard Shaw once said: “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have…

[ad_1] The word alternative is one of those shifty terms, with a definition that changes depending on perspective. For instance, something that is alternative to one person is the norm for another. Generally, the term alternative is considered to be defined by the fact that it is not considered to be in the majority or…

[ad_1] The open source world pioneered the use of digital badges to reward skills, achievements, and to signal transparency and openness. Scientific journals should apply open source methods, and use digital badges to encourage transparency and openness in scientific publications. Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts know all about merit badges. Scouts earn merit badges by…

[ad_1] I’ve been supporting student participation in humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) projects for over a decade. I’ve seen students get motivated and excited by working in a professional community while they learn and mature professionally. Out of the many reasons for supporting student participation in open source, here are five of the…

[ad_1] Are you interested in keeping track of what is happening in the open source cloud? Opensource.com is your source for news in OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure project. OpenStack around the web There is a lot of interesting stuff being written about OpenStack. Here’s a sampling from some of our favorites: read more [ad_2]…

[ad_1] In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look Google’s new open source operating system, Intel’s VR HoloLens device, Microsoft open sourcing PowerShell, and more. Open source news roundup for August 14-20, 2016 Google building Fuchsia, a new open source OS Google is building an open source operating system called Fuchsia.…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight an introduction to copyleft, the most popular open source web servers, the background story on a Certificate Authority called Let’s Encrypt, the state of West Virgina turning to an open source game engine for their new school curriculum, and open source options for disk imaging. Top 5…

[ad_1] The Fidus Writer online editor is especially for academics who need to write papers in collaboration with other authors, and it includes special tools for managing citations, formulas, and bibliographies. If you’re writing an academic paper by yourself, you have a lot of choices for tools to edit your document. Some of them even take…

[ad_1] One perception that Linux can’t seem to shake off is that you can’t do anything without using the command line. A number of people in my circle have been using Linux effectively for years, and they’ve yet to crack open a terminal window. Having said that, working at the command line can make certain…