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The trouble with DOIs

The trouble with DOIs

ScienceCard is a new service that I started last month with the simple idea to automatically track all journal articles of a given author, and to collect the article-level metrics (citations, bookmarks, etc.) for these papers. ScienceCard requires unique identifiers for articles and authors to work. Unique identifiers for authors

Personal names around the world

Personal names around the world

Yesterday I discovered (via a tweet by Owen Stephens) a very interesting document Personal names around the world that discusses the following question: How do people’s names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the

Did you receive spam because you published a paper?

Brendan Thomas has published an interesting paper that looks at author email addresses in the PubMed database of biomedical literature. Email addresses of first authors have been added to PubMed since 1996, and they can be retrieved via the standard web interface or automated software. This makes PubMed an excellent

Is Schema.org about a technical standard or about something else?

At the beginning of the month Google, Bing and Yahoo announced schema.org, a new initiative for structured markup on the web. Richard MacManus responded with a critical piece at ReadWriteWeb (Is Schema.org really a Google Land Grab?), mainly criticizing that the initiative didn’t use RDFa and didn’

Web Tools for Searching the Biomedical Literature – part II

Web Tools for Searching the Biomedical Literature – part II

Ten days ago I mentioned a paper by Zhiyong Lu that gives an overview over the available web tools to search the biomedical literature. Most of these tools enhance the PubMed service, and Zhiyong Lu in fact works for the NCBI, the developer of PubMed. In this post I want

Web Tools for Searching the Biomedical Literature – part I

Zhiyong Lu recently published an excellent overview of the web tools that are currently available to search the biomedical literature. The article has also a companion web page that allows user to filter for the features they are interested in, and to report new tools. The author describes 28 tools

Direct links to figures and tables using component DOIs

Direct links to figures and tables using component DOIs

We are all familiar with digital object identifiers (DOIs) provided by CrossRef to identify (and link to) journal articles. Some of us are familiar with the DOIs issued by DataCite to link to datasets. But most of us don’t know that CrossRef is also providing component DOIs that can