A tool for revealing web conversations and citations for an open access scientific paper
I found this via Jon Udell’s blog and thought it might be useful for those of you who are expecting to host scientific papers in your repository.
It is a tool that could be embedded in a repository splash page to reveal what open access conversations are occurring about an open access paper. The tool uses either doi, url or pmid and displays:
- blog postings that have discussed the paper (using postgenomic);
- comments that have been made on pubmed;
- people who have bookmarked the paper using connotea;
- how many citations are recorded for the paper on pubmed central and scopus.
The demonstrator is avaliable from Alf Eaton’s Hublog
It might be worth reading Jon Udell’s blog post for the background that lead to Alf Eaton posting this demonstrator.
Now I don’t use a repository on a daily basis so this may have disadvantages that are hidden from me, or be problematic to embed in a repository, but I think that putting this kind of tool on your repository might be a nice selling point for any scientists you are trying to convince to deposit.
I would love to hear from anyone who has tried this out on a live repository.
Posted by: Andy McGregor
Hello world
Spring seems to have sprung in London today, so it seems an appropriate day to launch the JISC Information Environment team’s newborn blog.
What’s an information environment?
Well, that’s a good question with a long answer. The best place to start is the JISC webpage.
This blog will communicate information for and about the JISC funded projects that are overseen by the information enviroment team. The contents may also be relevant to people who share our interest in the following areas:
- digital repositories
- preservation
- resource discovery
- shared services
- scholarly communication
Posted by: Andy McGregor