Defrosting the digital library: bibliographic tools for the next generation web.

by: Duncan Hull, Steve R. Pettifer, Douglas B. Kell

PLoS computational biology, Vol. 4, No. 10. (31 October 2008), e1000204.

Abstract

Many scientists now manage the bulk of their bibliographic information electronically, thereby organizing their publications and citation material from digital libraries. However, a library has been described as "thought in cold storage," and unfortunately many digital libraries can be cold, impersonal, isolated, and inaccessible places. In this Review, we discuss the current chilly state of digital libraries for the computational biologist, including PubMed, IEEE Xplore, the ACM digital library, ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Citeseer, arXiv, DBLP, and Google Scholar. We illustrate the current process of using these libraries with a typical workflow, and highlight problems with managing data and metadata using URIs. We then examine a range of new applications such as Zotero, Mendeley, Mekentosj Papers, MyNCBI, CiteULike, Connotea, and HubMed that exploit the Web to make these digital libraries more personal, sociable, integrated, and accessible places. We conclude with how these applications may begin to help achieve a digital defrost, and discuss some of the issues that will help or hinder this in terms of making libraries on the Web warmer places in the future, becoming resources that are considerably more useful to both humans and machines.

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	digital-library, bibliographic-software Yeah! A paper about an area that has been taxing my brain for some time. Actually this paper does not cover my thoughts but it provides evidence that someone else is also fed up with the rubbish service offered by databases and traditional bibliographic management software which as far as I can see provide little more than a glorified Access db interface at a rip off price. There is a flow chart included in the paper that identifies the key actions taken by researchers, most of which are not well supported with existing technology. The author's are right, there is no excuse for the technology to not support these, the problem is people and profits and the "we've always done it this way, why do you want to change?" attitude. They say that applications such as CiteULike require "require users to invest time and effort learning how to use them, and importing or entering bibliographic information. Why should they bother?" p9. Coming from a web background before I got into academia, I expended little effort figuring out how to use CiteULike to import a reference, add tags and notes. In contrast I've have sat with EndNote for several days trying to figure if it is worth using. YeeGads! that is revolting and clunky! I can't believe that a population of very intelligent users and manipulators of information, especially those in the computer science field, have allowed the software industry to be so lax in provision of useful tools. 2009-10-28 17:04:59 I just checked out the posting history for this article. Am I the only person who uses CiteULike that adds notes ??? Or does everybody use it essentially the same as EndNote - file the reference (and maybe the document) and keep all thoughts about the paper somewhere else? 2009-10-28 17:07:42
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Defrosting the digital library: bibliographic tools for the next generation web.

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