Announcing Rust 1.94.1

On Saturday, June 8th – exactly a month from today – the PLOS San Francisco offices will host a workshop/hackathon about using markdown for science. A lot of people are experimenting with markdown for authoring scientific articles – see blog posts here, here or my post here, and the scientific manuscript here.

This week we released version 1.0 of the ropensci pdftools package to CRAN. Pdftools provides utilities for extracting text, fonts, attachments and other data from PDF files. It also supports rendering of PDF files into bitmap images. This release has a few internal enhancements and fixes an annoying bug for landscape PDF pages. The version bump to 1.0 signifies that the package has undergone sufficient testing and the API is stable.

PKP sends a call to Journal Editors, Managers, and Publishers announcing trials of the Publication Facts Label for those using Open Journal Systems (OJS). At a time of concern over information quality, the Public Knowledge Project is introducing the Publication Facts Label (PFL) for journals using OJS (v 3.3 or higher). The PFL plugin can be readily installed in a journal, where it will gather and provide the