Real Open Access
The open access debate has recently focused on the following aspects specifically: - redistribution of materials - the scholarly definition of the term “open access” (assuming one is attributable) -...
View ArticleIndexing Progress
So far in terms of indexing, these are complete: Hindawi, Electrochemical Science Group, Repositorium (Universidade do Minho Eprints), Medknow, MDPI The next few to go: ACBI, IUCr, PubMed Central*,...
View ArticlePHP and Libraries
PHP is great. This quote which appears, ironically, on ASP.net explains why in a nutshell: “I think PHP is great if you don’t wanna spent alot of time and ENERGY to become a web developer and still...
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Industry right not to support PhDs
In a recent article in Chemistry World, the declining support for PhD and Postdocs was highlighted. The explanation given is that this is a result of “changes to the way research costs are calculated”....
View ArticleScanned-inavian Chemistry?
One of the most untapped and certainly unsearched sources of chemical literature on the web is journal articles in image PDF format. I am using ImageMagick and Tesseract to get round this but (having...
View ArticleNEW Literature Search Capability
The << literature search >> capability has some new features, such as a “cited in” link beneath search results. This represents our efforts to incorporate Google Scholar like features into...
View ArticleNEW Reference Search – widening the search
The selection of sources we can full text search is growing but is still limited by publisher permission. However, the references within those papers, which are obviously from a much wider set of...
View ArticleIncreased Visibility on Authors’ Research History
The literature search now has a (partially enabled) feature which extracts references from documents where the author has cited themselves. It also counts citations of that reference in other...
View ArticleUsefulChemSpider
Jean-Claude Bradley recently blogged about an all too familiar issue which you will need to read about there to understand this post. They’ve done work, now they have to remember what they’ve done in...
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