Group CiteULike-discussion

new forum message [COMPLETED] Reverse order of recent activity (connections)

2009-07-04T09:04:43+00:00

That's completely wasted on Chris - I'm sure he has NO IDEA who Megatron is.

Me - I have 2 small boys and regularly get sharp pieces of Allspark stuck in my soles.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Reverse order of recent activity (connections)

2009-07-04T08:15:57+00:00

Done. It should have always been like it is now - everything else is...

new forum message [DECLINED - BAD POETRY] so, farewell then, Uservoice

2009-07-04T07:26:08+00:00

BAD POETRY

Keith's mum

didn't think so.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Reverse order of recent activity (connections)

2009-07-04T07:12:39+00:00

Bumpity Bump Bump!

new forum message [DECLINED - BAD POETRY] so, farewell then, Uservoice

2009-07-03T15:27:37+00:00

Stick to the day jobs, boys.

new forum message [UNDER REVIEW] Yay! Forum search is here...

2009-07-03T15:25:50+00:00

Couple more suggestions for the forum:

1. Instead of showing all the updates to a particular thread, maybe the recent activity page could just show the latest post. So for June 29, the posts would just be:

2009-06-29

15:52: thegoose posted a comment to forum thread [COMPLETED] Book Chapter Citation (Vancouver Style)
09:34: thegoose posted a comment to forum thread CiteULike mangles author names.

Only the latest post in each thread would show up in the update page. It might reduce the clutter and make it easier to see what's going on.

2. Perhaps you could bold the new status messages in the title.

new forum message [DECLINED - BAD POETRY] so, farewell then, Uservoice

2009-07-03T15:21:42+00:00

You didn't allow markup or images

Made me practice ascii on your pages

Your votes could be rigged or tweaked

You did go out looking a little peaked

new forum message [COMPLETED] My Library previous entries vanished

2009-07-03T15:03:56+00:00

I've sent you an email about this (assuming your registered email is valid).

new forum thread [COMPLETED] My Library previous entries vanished

2009-07-03T13:26:15+00:00

Greetings,

I've been trying out Citeulike the last few days. I uploaded 2 .pdfs earlier this week, and another this morning. As of now, the only one present is from today; the only keywords showing are also from today's upload. Any suggestions on what happened to my previous MyLibrary holdings?

new forum message [COMPLETED] Could not grab Elsevier doi

2009-07-03T10:22:54+00:00

The springerlink article posts as well. I didn't do anything but it seems to have sorted itself out. We occasionally get blacklisted by Springer (not "deliberately" but there's some sort of automatic anti-DoS thing we occasionally trigger). Unfortunately I didn't see what was going on while the problem persisted so it's a best-guess.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Could not grab Elsevier doi

2009-07-03T09:50:00+00:00

I think it (the original ScienceDirect problem) is sorted now. CrossRef was behaving very badly for a while - I'm guessing they had some sort of technical issue?

new forum thread [DECLINED - BAD POETRY] so, farewell then, Uservoice

2009-07-03T07:08:57+00:00

So, farewell then, Uservoice,

you were not the CiteULike choice,

We'll talk to the staff via the forum,

where our posts will no doubt interest them.

(with apologies to EJ Thribb)

new forum message [COMPLETED] Could not grab Elsevier doi

2009-07-03T02:36:00+00:00

Okay, thanks! Noticed it here as well, both for the page and for the doi

new forum message [COMPLETED] Could not grab Elsevier doi

2009-07-02T20:49:27+00:00

Ouch! Crossref have changed their data format in a way that's incompatible with us.

We'll get this sorted as a priority.

new forum thread [COMPLETED] Could not grab Elsevier doi

2009-07-02T18:40:07+00:00

Tried to submit doi:10.1016/j.entcs.2005.10.027 but got the following message:

* Could not determine a URL for this article. Please report this as a bug. % If this doesn't make sense, you need more help, or just can't see the point of all this, then you might like to read the FAQ page All about the Bookmarklet. % The page you submitted was: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B75H1-4JXS6XG-3&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=bd4cc5650441e32352c0a70944d6d259

new forum message [UNDER REVIEW] Yay! Forum search is here...

2009-07-02T13:39:25+00:00

There's a tooltip clue. Do a search, then click it.

Ah, it clears the results of the search. (Tooltip Clue: clear results).

new forum message [UNDER REVIEW] Yay! Forum search is here...

2009-07-02T13:27:03+00:00

Can you customise it so that it shows the title of the post from which the snippet below is taken?

Done, but will need to wait for Google to re-index those pages

2. What is the small X next to the search button for?

There's a tooltip clue. Do a search, then click it.

4. There is some code leftover....

Good call. Thanks.

new forum thread [UNDER REVIEW] Yay! Forum search is here...

2009-07-02T13:10:07+00:00

Very cool to see that the forum is getting enhancements! I just spotted the new forum search. (Can suggestions be far behind? ;-))

1. Currently all the search results have this title:

     CiteULike: Group CiteULike-discussion

Can you customise it so that it shows the title of the post from which the snippet below is taken?

2. What is the small X next to the search button for? Clicking it doesn't do anything.

3. Another suggestion for the forums would be to have links to the three forums

     General Feature Requests Bug Reports

right at the top instead of having to click through to the specific forums.

4. There is some code leftover at the bottom of the forum page

     <% if {[regexp {/groupfunc/3124} [ns_conn url]]} { ns_puts [subst { }]

new forum message [COMPLETED] Book Chapter Citation (Vancouver Style)

2009-06-29T14:52:41+00:00

Yeah - I remember - you don't like clicking :-)

new forum message [COMPLETED] Book Chapter Citation (Vancouver Style)

2009-06-29T14:36:15+00:00

I actually didn't know that there was a "Book Part" option in the drop down menu because I don't remember seeing it before today. Or maybe it was there all the time and I overlooked it.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Book Chapter Citation (Vancouver Style)

2009-06-29T14:22:33+00:00

Interestingly, when I posted it, it came through as "Book Part" automatically.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Book Chapter Citation (Vancouver Style)

2009-06-29T14:17:15+00:00

Fixed.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Book Chapter Citation (Vancouver Style)

2009-06-29T14:11:27+00:00

Yes!

new forum message [COMPLETED] Book Chapter Citation (Vancouver Style)

2009-06-29T14:10:32+00:00

Do you mean the dud "\" near the end?

new forum message [COMPLETED] Book Chapter Citation (Vancouver Style)

2009-06-29T14:04:20+00:00

That worked. Thank you!

One more question: Why is the DOI that was extracted not the same as on Springer site? There is an extra back-slash that makes it invalid.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Book Chapter Citation (Vancouver Style)

2009-06-29T12:07:16+00:00

Does changing type to "Book Part" do it for you?

     Serganova I, Mayer-Kukuck P, Huang R, Blasberg R. Molecular Imaging: Reporter Gene Imaging. In: Semmler W, Schwaiger M, editors. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. vol. 185/2. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; 2008. p. 167-223.

new forum thread [COMPLETED] Book Chapter Citation (Vancouver Style)

2009-06-29T11:52:16+00:00

I have a book chapter in my library that is missing the book title in the Vancouver Style citation. The chapter title is inserted instead of the book title.

It is part of a book series. Can I fix this by changing some of fields?

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-06-29T08:34:52+00:00

I'll have a look to fix the even more underlying problem, viz., to get "Liu, Z. Gerald" working.

I think that's now, too.

new forum message [COMPLETED] viewing "READ" papers

2009-06-28T22:38:13+00:00

I understand. I will try using a 'read' tag in my library. Thanks for the explanation.

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-28T18:34:49+00:00

I don't know how to make a private article public

That's any easy one. View the article, and look for

     (x) Your posting privacy settings: private

(3 down from tags). Open this and change from "Private to your library" to "Publicly visible".

new forum message [COMPLETED] viewing "READ" papers

2009-06-28T18:19:01+00:00

http://www.citeulike.org/howto?show=sec3-1

Excluding a tag can be done by prepending it with '!'.

Tags are only a-z,0-9,-,_

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-28T18:17:29+00:00

I think no one would search after "rumanien" when looking for "Rumänien" or "ubersetzung" when looking for "Übersetzung" ...

Actually, we'll be updating the search quite soon to cope with that, i.e., "rumanien" will match both "rumanien" and "rumänien" (though not "rumaenien"). And vice versa. Actually, as a special case, author searching already works like that, so searching for "author:Hass", "author:Häss" or "author:Häß" will match all three cases.

new forum message [COMPLETED] viewing "READ" papers

2009-06-28T17:51:20+00:00

So:

         http://www.citeulike.org/user/studentx/tag/!read

is everything that is not marked "read". Correct? Can tags start with an exclamation mark?

And that is useful syntax. Needs to be in the FAQ somewhere.

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-28T17:31:25+00:00

Sorry, I don't know how to make a private article public (I didn't want to make the whole database public before having experimented a bit and before the tag problem beeing solved).

Anyway, you've got it right. I deleted all articles and reimported them (in UTF8), and the curly braces are gone. The faulty code you cited derived from a bug in BibDesk when I experimented with TeX-coded import.

We made the decision to restrict to ASCII only. It makes sense as a common "baseset" of characters - i.e., almost everything can be written in ASCII, but it's hard for other cases. How would you type in the (Polish) "Ł", for example? One of the most powerful uses of tags is for sharing information amongst users (one of the key design goals of CiteULike) so we feel its important to have tags in a common character set.

OK, your decision, but I think that that's a serious restriction for german users, and I think no one would search after "rumanien" when looking for "Rumänien" or "ubersetzung" when looking for "Übersetzung" ...

new forum message [COMPLETED] viewing "READ" papers

2009-06-28T15:57:58+00:00

"Unread" is slightly misleading - it just lists the unread one first. So the read ones are at the end. But neither case shows which papers are actually read or unread.

Some people use tags for this. With the Bulk Tagging trick, it can be pretty easy to add a "read" tag to lost of articles in one go. So read articles are:

     http://www.citeulike.org/user/studentx/tag/read

and unread ones:

     http://www.citeulike.org/user/studentx/tag/!read

Some people consider this "tag abuse" - for example, your tag cloud will likely have a dominant "read" element shouting at you.

If this doesn't work for you, file a "Feature Request"...

new forum thread [COMPLETED] viewing "READ" papers

2009-06-28T15:23:04+00:00

Greetings,

I'm probably missing something simple. I know there's a way to view all the UNREAD papers in your library. Is there a way to view all the READ papers? Or maybe search by the "priority to read" field?

Great site. Thank you.

new forum message No check boxes in group library

2009-06-28T13:53:28+00:00

Just to confirm - it does.

new forum message No check boxes in group library

2009-06-28T12:15:50+00:00

The =///Ministry of Health/= trick might work with RIS.

new forum message No check boxes in group library

2009-06-28T12:14:22+00:00

I imported an RIS file as seem to have less hiccups with that. Nevermind- thanks anyway:) Maybe for the future?

new forum message No check boxes in group library

2009-06-28T12:11:47+00:00

No, I'm afraid not - good idea, though.

If you've imported using BibTeX, you might find it easier to change the names in that file first, doing a "global search and replace" for "Ministry of Health" -> "{Ministry of Health}". I think that works. If not you could try =///Ministry of Health/=.

new forum message No check boxes in group library

2009-06-28T12:06:48+00:00

Thanks for that! I have another query about tags/deletion. I am going through all the author names manually at the moment as there are a lot of group names e.g. "Ministry of Health" that didn't import properly. I have lots by the same groups so being able to select and do them all at once would be really helpful. Is there anyway of doing this? If not, is there any way of making the author-tags like the keyword-tags where you can rename/delete a group at once etc... ?

new forum message API/JSON output

2009-06-28T11:36:00+00:00

Sorry, no JSON option at the moment.

Maybe this?

     http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jFeed

Or?

     http://ejohn.org/projects/tags/perl/

new forum message No check boxes in group library

2009-06-28T11:24:04+00:00

If you want to delete ALL articles, it might be easier to use this trick

new forum thread No check boxes in group library

2009-06-28T11:20:00+00:00

I want to remove all the articles currently in the group library for which I am administrator but I can't select them all at once like I can in my private library. Is there some way you can fix this? Thanks!

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-06-28T11:00:12+00:00

It *slightly* better now. It was a case of two wrongs making an even bigger one:

I think the original BibTeX import was wrong. As I interpret the spec., there should never be spaces in within "accents" and similar, e.g. \'{e} not {\' e}, even though the latter is valid TeX.
because of this, we were parsing a "{" as a literal initial "A{ Jones", causing later bracket matching hell.

The underlying problem is not fixed yet, but the bracket "fixup" is better so you each name now has properly matched braces, so you shouldn't get "Lara}, Eyal {." but "{Lara}, Eyal {.}". Still wrong, but better.

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-06-28T09:52:02+00:00

OK, I've fixed the underlying bug now.

     =/Gerald/ZG/Liu/= (note no "Z" in first part)

should work properly (i.e., "Z. Gerald Liu", "ZG Lui", etc). I'll have a look to fix the even more underlying problem, viz., to get "Liu, Z. Gerald" working.

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-06-28T07:10:57+00:00

Yes, the Howto mentions the problem and that it's only a workaround for certain styles. In other cases you might need to do something else until this bug is fixed, e.g.,

     =///Z. Gerald Liu/=
     "Z. Gerald Liu"
     "Z.G. Liu"

etc.

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-06-28T00:27:03+00:00

This doesn't seem to be working as it should. Entering =/Z. Gerald/ZG/Liu/= gives Z. Gerald G Liu in the CiteULike page display, and Liu, Z. Gerald G. in the resulting Bibtex author field.

new forum thread API/JSON output

2009-06-27T16:33:08+00:00

I have been using feed2js.org to convert the rss feed's (of citations rather than blog entrys or something else) to a JSON output my little web app can deal with but just wondering if I can shorten the hops and get a JSON feed directly from citeUlike instead of the rss feeds?! Done before?

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-27T10:01:13+00:00

However, the problem with emerging curly braces is still there,

I think one problem is that the input BibTeX is wrong (from my reading of the BibTeX manual). You supplied:

     Darija {\v S}imunovi{ć}

But is should be (I think):

     Darija {\v{S}}imunovi{\'{e}}

The extra space in {\v S} is messing up our parser.

new forum message Adding eprint field.

2009-06-26T20:58:02+00:00

Now that would be really interesting! I don't currently have any papers from OAI repositories, but I think that this is the way things are going so I expect to see more over the coming years.

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-26T15:39:54+00:00

However, the problem with emerging curly braces is still there,

Can you post (either here or email to support09@....) the BibTex you used to upload that article?

It's a very messy problem, but generally we try to preserve the actual text of what you uploaded. I expect that, if anything, the title (with the extra {}) is right and there should be extra {} in the booktitle. BibTeX is very weird.

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-26T15:19:04+00:00

My bad - I forgot about that. I'll fix it straight away.

Fixed. (I hope!)

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-26T15:00:13+00:00

but alas, only when editing my tags in CiteULike, not when importing.

My bad - I forgot about that. I'll fix it straight away.

I'll also look into the {} problem. Unfortunately, all (or most) of your articles are marked "private" so I can't see them - would you consider making the problematic ones public?

presumably I don't quite understand the technical problems in putting umlauts in tags

No technical problem. We made the decision to restrict to ASCII only. It makes sense as a common "baseset" of characters - i.e., almost everything can be written in ASCII, but it's hard for other cases. How would you type in the (Polish) "Ł", for example? One of the most powerful uses of tags is for sharing information amongst users (one of the key design goals of CiteULike) so we feel its important to have tags in a common character set.

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-26T13:28:48+00:00

Thanks, this is a (rather poor) workaround (sorry, presumably I don't quite understand the technical problems in putting umlauts in tags), but it works – but alas, only when editing my tags in CiteULike, not when importing.

However, the problem with emerging curly braces is still there, cf. now http://www.citeulike.org/user/joachim_tr/tag/rumanien.

Thanks alot anyway.

All the best

Joachim

new forum message Adding eprint field.

2009-06-26T12:07:56+00:00

Could this be a first step towards support of OAI repositories such as Eprints?

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-26T11:09:33+00:00

the tags are mangled: "bersetzung" should be "übersetzung" and "rumnien" as mentioned above "rumänien".

Yes, until my change we only allowed a-z,0-9,_,- in tags and all other chars were stripped out. Those characters are still the only ones allowed but we do some "translation" of accented characters so that

     übersetzung -> ubersetzung
     rumänien -> rumanien

You'll have to manually change anything you added previously, but you can globally rename each tag (e.g., einfhrung -> einfuhrung) using the following page

     http://www.citeulike.org/profile/joachim_tr/tag-rename

If you're a "techie" and want to do things in batch, you can call the rename function directly, e.g.,

     GET -H 'Cookie: login=XXXXX' http://www.citeulike.org/profile/joachim_tr/tag-rename-do&tag=einfhrung&new_tags=einfuhrung

XXXX is the login cookie copied from browser.

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-26T10:02:48+00:00

Maybe I can flesh out my problem further: let's have a look at http://www.citeulike.org/user/joachim_tr/tag/rumnien, which in my original database is tagged "Rumänien" (I hope the umlaut is making it through): The 'booktitle' reads "Im Dialog: Rum{ä}nistik im deutschsprachigen Raum" with curly braces around the umlaut, whereas in the 'title' all is as it should be.

When I go in the detailed view, the booktitle is correct, but the tags are mangled: "bersetzung" should be "übersetzung" and "rumnien" as mentioned above "rumänien".

Thanks again

Joachim

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-26T09:27:02+00:00

OK, I've done

     Übersetzung -> ubersetzung
     9/11 -> 9-11

I decided not to do Ü -> Ue, etc., because (a) that a German specific thing and (b) most non-german speakers won't know about it and so might be confused.

new forum message [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-26T06:38:20+00:00

We should be able to sort out the umlauts u" -> ue, etc. We don't allow slashes in tags, but could translate to "-".

new forum thread Output style function

2009-06-26T05:24:50+00:00

What about an output style function? When I collect refs in Endnote I don't worry about how the publisher has decided to format their entry as I can adjust it automatically by changing the output style. However, in citeulike I have just imported a batch of files (RIS)and the titles are not uniform (i.e. some are capitalised, others not). I am now looking at the frightening prospect of adjusting each manually (!) Citeulike is great and I am a huge fan, but unless it gets some user friendly batch-editing functions it will lose out to other ref managers like zotero and mendeley...

new forum thread [COMPLETED] German umlauts and slash not included in tags

2009-06-25T23:32:26+00:00

When I import my BibTeX database, the german umlauts vanish from all tags, cf. http://www.citeulike.org/user/joachim_tr/article/4964080. I tried to convert my UTF8 based database to TeX notation, but to no avail, other than seeing that the umlauts are wrong at certain places in the list view too (but right in the details view).

This is strange because otherwise, umlauts are no problem.

Another problem in tags seems to be the slash: I have a tag "9/11" which looses the / in between, but again, not in titles etc. Cf. http://www.citeulike.org/user/joachim_tr/article/4964297

Thanks for your fine work, anyway.

Joachim

new forum message How can I create phrasal tags?

2009-06-25T16:43:14+00:00

Tags must be single "words" (letters, numbers, '-' or "_"). I would suggest "semantic_relatedness" or "semantic-relatedness".

new forum thread How can I create phrasal tags?

2009-06-25T16:32:53+00:00

If a paper contains a phrasal tags like "semantic relatedness", how can I add this tag?! When I seperate each tag with comma, it automatically change to space.

new forum message Click to tag no longer works in Safari

2009-06-25T16:01:20+00:00

You are condemning all users of Mac OS prior to 10.4. to greatly reduced functionality, including having to type tags for every posting - no click and no auto-complete. I presume there will be increasing loss of functions as you "improve". If that is your intention then you really should label CiteULike upfront as requiring 10.4 and above, and make clear that you will abandon yet more operating systems as time goes on, as opposed to wasting users' time and causing needless anxiety by making out users have problems on their own machines. I thought CiteULike was intending to be a reliable, permanent home for a citations library, but it seems that's only for people willing to stay on the treadmill of machine upgrades, in other words computer geeks/consumers rather than academics. I am very disappointed.

new forum message Click to tag no longer works in Safari

2009-06-25T15:48:07+00:00

That didn't work, but thanks for trying. Its now the same on other browsers and other machines with the same browsers and OS. Its a CiteULike created problem.

new forum message A Journal Library (Pregolia) Vs A Paper Library (CiteULike)

2009-06-25T14:59:08+00:00

I agree, and have started a request in the new forum (I went there first).

new forum message Flexibility on Author Name fulfillment & other features

2009-06-25T14:53:20+00:00

Great! I wasn't expecting it this fast ;)

It was a surprise to me when I was adding a new paper reference today!

Thanks a lot!

new forum message Flexibility on Author Name fulfillment & other features

2009-06-24T21:07:41+00:00

OK - done.

new forum message Adding eprint field.

2009-06-24T12:24:58+00:00

That's fantastic, thanks. This even allows me more flexibility with processing arXiv urls in my BibTeX style file. Thanks again!

new forum message Adding eprint field.

2009-06-24T08:25:00+00:00

OK, that's done.

We previously exported the eprint as

     eprint = {0905.0151}

so I've also partly implemented this

     http://arxiv.org/hypertex/bibstyles/

to give

     archivePrefix = {arXiv}
     eprint = {0905.0151}

We don't store the "primaryClass" (e.g., "hep-th")

new forum message Adding eprint field.

2009-06-24T07:02:06+00:00

The "editing" is a red-herring. If you "edit" then "update" without changing anything, the same thing happens.

I think I've found the problem, and I'm putting up a fix.

new forum message Adding eprint field.

2009-06-24T00:02:15+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty weird. When I alter the title or abstract of an arXiv paper the eprint line in the BibTeX just vanishes. It may happen with other fields. For example, here is the BibTeX stripped from arXiv by citeUlike for one of my preprints:

@misc{Everitt_GHZ_2009,

abstract = {The Mermin inequality provides a criterion for experimentally ruling out local-realistic descriptions of multiparticle systems. A violation of thisinequality means that the particles must be entangled, but does not, in general, indicate whether \$N\$-partite entanglement is present. For this, astricter bound is required. Here we discuss this bound and use it to propose a scheme for demonstrating \$N\$-partite entanglement with Rydberg atoms in microwave cavities.},

author = {Everitt, Mark S. and Jones, Martin L. and Varcoe, Benjamin T. H. and Dunningham, Jacob A. },

citeulike-article-id = {4928103},

eprint = {arXiv:0905.0151},

keywords = {bell, mermin, nonlocality},

posted-at = {2009-06-23 02:01:45},

priority = {0},

title = {Creating and observing \$N\$-partite entanglement with atoms},

url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0151},

year = {2009}

}

The slashes before the dollar signs were bothering me, so tried to edit them with alternative math mode stuff and clicked the update button which gave me this:

@misc{Everitt_GHZ_2009,

abstract = {The Mermin inequality provides a criterion for experimentally ruling out local-realistic descriptions of multiparticle systems. A violation of thisinequality means that the particles must be entangled, but does not, in general, indicate whether $N$-partite entanglement is present. For this, astricter bound is required. Here we discuss this bound and use it to propose a scheme for demonstrating $N$-partite entanglement with Rydberg atoms in microwave cavities.},

author = {Everitt, Mark S. and Jones, Martin L. and Varcoe, Benjamin T. H. and Dunningham, Jacob A. },

citeulike-article-id = {4928103},

keywords = {bell, mermin, nonlocality},

posted-at = {2009-06-23 02:01:45},

priority = {0},

title = {Creating and observing $N$-partite entanglement with atoms},

url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0151},

year = {2009}

}

which is identical, but with the eprint field gone. It's really odd.

new forum message Flexibility on Author Name fulfillment & other features

2009-06-23T21:40:39+00:00

I usually use the list available at wikipedia (Here) under the "Entry Types" separator!

Thanks ;)

new forum message Directly post ISBN to citeulike

2009-06-23T18:04:32+00:00

Sweet! Thank you! :)

new forum message Adding eprint field.

2009-06-23T16:56:04+00:00

Stuff from arXiv should automatically have the eprint in the BibTeX export. Is this not what you want?

Can you post an example (or email) of the

uploading modified bibtex with the eprint, but this seems to wreck mathmode stuff

I can't understand how that can happen...

new forum thread Adding eprint field.

2009-06-23T15:53:32+00:00

It'd be nice for articles such as those from arXiv if an eprint field could be added when I'm editing the article details. I'm doing this manually by uploading modified bibtex with the eprint, but this seems to wreck mathmode stuff in titles etc. When I alter them back, the eprint entry vanishes.

new forum message Directly post ISBN to citeulike

2009-06-23T10:14:24+00:00

Sorted. Try URLs like:

     isbn:9781844630158

I might try to be smart and detect PubMed and ISBN from their length so you can type in just the numbers. But that's for later.

new forum message Directly post ISBN to citeulike

2009-06-23T09:07:01+00:00

Straight on it, bud.

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-06-23T08:01:50+00:00

Nifty hack and it works! Thank you! :)

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-06-23T06:39:24+00:00

There's an old hack to do this: enclose the author name in quotes to when it's an organisation. So, set the authors to:

     Ellis, I. O.
     "NHS Cancer Screening Programmes"
     "Royal College of Pathologists"
     "The Science Consortium"

I thought that using the =///= trick should work. I'll try and track down why it isn't working as expected.

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-06-23T02:31:21+00:00

According to the how-to on this topic,

     =///The Science Consortium/=

should display "The Science Consortium" as an author, right? Instead, the Vancouver style cites this as: "Consortium TS". Take a look at this example.

How do I make it display as "The Science Consortium" in the Vancouver style?

new forum thread Directly post ISBN to citeulike

2009-06-23T01:45:28+00:00

Is there a way to post items by inputting the ISBN number in citeulike's interface? (Like the ones for doi and pmid.)

new forum message browser button in firefox -- instructions don't appear

2009-06-22T21:09:01+00:00

Yes. However this "known bug" in some of your JavaScripts did not used to be there. So would you mind rolling back and unbugging them please? And, for your assistance, the link further down the Explorer page giving the link to use in Explorer, provides a link that works fine in Firefox too. So you could just say to paste that into bookmarks in any of those browsers.

new forum message Click to tag no longer works in Safari

2009-06-22T20:55:49+00:00

First it stopped working on Safari, then on Firefox. I thought maybe somehow Javascript on the whole machine was damaged and soldiered on, retyping the tags every time, and doing a sweep of mistypes every few days. But now I've tried the same browsers on another machine and, low and behold, the same applies. So how, without changing anything your end, did that really useful functionality get broken? And will you un-break it, please? No, I cannot move to upgraded browsers without upgrading my OS and losing valuable applications.

new forum message Flexibility on Author Name fulfillment & other features

2009-06-22T14:43:37+00:00

there are many fields that are optional and others that are mandatory to generate a correct bibtex.

If you want to draw up a list, I'd be happy to incorporate it. Technically very easy.

new forum message Flexibility on Author Name fulfillment & other features

2009-06-22T13:31:01+00:00

1 - Thank you! I really thought it would be rather tricky, otherwise you would have it already flexible. Nonetheless, the '=////=' seems to be great!

2 - I tried to say that when posting something manually, there are many fields that are optional and others that are mandatory to generate a correct bibtex. For instance: a 'book' only requires the fulfilment of the author/editor, title, publisher and year fields. For an 'inproceedings' paper there is another set of mandatory fields. What I was demanding was a mark on the fields that are mandatory, depending on the type of the paper, just to guide the user...

It was just a suggestion, nothing to worry about! ;)

new forum message add tags to watchlist?

2009-06-22T08:24:05+00:00

Cool, Thanks!

Yann

new forum message Bibtex export creates "misc" record for electronic citation

2009-06-21T23:33:33+00:00

Please have a look at:

http://www.citeulike.org/user/kevinpdavies/article/4544209

new forum message [COMPLETED] A single note is not included in Bibtex record

2009-06-21T23:31:22+00:00

Sorry yes I am wrong - I was looking for a field called "note" but it is in the "comment" field as you said.

new forum message Flexibility on Author Name fulfillment & other features

2009-06-20T15:00:33+00:00

1. Parsing names is very tricky in the general case. If we get it wrong, you can always use the special "=////=" format described here .

2. I don't quite understand what you mean here. Can you elaborate? Apart from that, if a journal is not supported, let us know. Sometimes it's really easy to add a new one (we tend to add new ones by user request).

new forum thread Flexibility on Author Name fulfillment & other features

2009-06-20T10:41:50+00:00

Hi all, I've been using CiteULike for almost one year, and it is being quite handy on my MSc. degree! However I have two small complains:

1 - There is not much flexibility on filling out the authors' name. They must all follow the same style. That is, if the first author is written as 'Kent, Clark', the second author can not be written as 'Lex Luthor', but this is not the worst. Many times I have authors with more than three names, e.g., 'Mary John Stuart Spencer' in a same list of authors with just two names, e.g. 'Charles Darwin'. In these cases the long name is never precessed as it is written. Maybe you have explanation for this, and I'm not aware. But if not, is it possible to make it flexible as bibtex processor does?

2 - Your SaveCitation stuff is amazing! But sometimes I find articles that are not in archives supported by CUL. In that case I do a manual post, but every time I need to search in the web to know which are the default fields to fill for each type of paper (article,inproceedings, book). In this context I'd request just a little (but visible :P) mark on the default fields, depending on the type of the paper.

Best Regards

new forum message Web 1.0 navigation for text browsers etc

2009-06-20T09:15:43+00:00

A warning - you'll probably get lots of JavaScript errors on other pages if you do that. The old menus are not maintained and, in particular, don't include some of the JavaScript libraries we've added recently. This is not a big problem for lynx, etc., as they don't use JavaScript

new forum message Web 1.0 navigation for text browsers etc

2009-06-19T14:20:13+00:00

If you're using Firefox, you can install the "User Agent Switcher" extension, and add a user agent whose "User Agent" value contains "w3m" or "lynx". I've just tried this (Firefox 3.0.11 on a Max) and it works like a charm...

new forum message Web 1.0 navigation for text browsers etc

2009-06-19T11:07:09+00:00

Can I use the old menus, even when I am not using emacs or lynx? I would be happy to use the old menus using firefox 3.0.4., is this possible? Thanks!

new forum message Bibtex export creates "misc" record for electronic citation

2009-06-19T08:24:45+00:00

Can you post a link to an article which shows this misbehaviour?

new forum message [COMPLETED] A single note is not included in Bibtex record

2009-06-19T07:48:09+00:00

Seems to work for me (on the one test case I looked at). Can you post a link to an article where you don't get the note?

new forum message [COMPLETED] access denied on trying to click through to uservoice

2009-06-19T06:49:26+00:00

That's fixed now - apologies

new forum message [COMPLETED] access denied on trying to click through to uservoice

2009-06-19T06:32:51+00:00

Looks like I've messed up. I've removed the link until I sort it.

new forum thread [COMPLETED] A single note is not included in Bibtex record

2009-06-19T03:00:38+00:00

If a single note is added to a citation, it will not appear in the Bibtex record. If however a second note is added, both notes will appear in the Bibtex record with a separator as expected.

new forum thread Bibtex export creates "misc" record for electronic citation

2009-06-19T02:25:52+00:00

When exporting a library to Bibtex, an electronic citation is exported as Bibtex record type "misc" rather than "electronic". URL field is not an optional field for record type "misc" and is therefore not included when generating a bibliography.

new forum message [COMPLETED] access denied on trying to click through to uservoice

2009-06-18T22:40:07+00:00

Same here. It says:

     This forum is private.

     Log in or Sign up to gain or request access

new forum thread [COMPLETED] access denied on trying to click through to uservoice

2009-06-18T21:11:55+00:00

I get redirected to http://feedback.citeulike.org/pages/20603-general/access/denied if I try to access the new support forums via the link http://www.citeulike.org/feedback?url=http%3a%2f%2ffeedback%2eciteulike%2eorg%2f

I tried logging out of citeulike, and back in again, but that didn't help.

I would post a bug report on uservoice about it, but ...

new forum message bibtex keys: making them more useful

2009-06-18T16:40:49+00:00

Yes, the list I gave you is all we use, but probably should be augmented with most of your words. "Well" is a tricky one, of course, maybe even "can"

"Can manufacturers develop new lid mechanism"

And no writer would begin a sentence with "and". Doh!

new forum message bibtex keys: making them more useful

2009-06-18T16:27:43+00:00

That's easy to remember. Is that an exhaustive list?

Are

     as and because in so well are do can (any random alphabet)

etc.

are all taken as first words?

new forum message bibtex keys: making them more useful

2009-06-18T15:43:20+00:00

Currently, the first word which is not one of

     a an the on not is

is used.

new forum message bibtex keys: making them more useful

2009-06-18T15:28:33+00:00

What would you prefer for a title like "In the Days of Summer....."?

Logically, I would prefer Author2009Days.

However, I insert my references into my document as I import them into citeulike. I don't know what citeulike would pick so I tend to key in Author2009In before I get the bib file. When I finally download the bib to generate the reference list, I find out that CUL has picked "Days" and all the entries that I made earlier throw up errors. :/ That is why I made the first request - of having the bibkey available with the citation. But if that's not possible, there has to be some uniform way of naming that I can guess easily. Does CUL pick all common nouns and no "grammar/sentence-structure-related" words?

new forum message bibtex keys: making them more useful

2009-06-18T12:29:22+00:00

No, we deliberately strip them out when choosing the "first word".

Would you like such words includes as well or instead? What would you prefer for a title like "In the Days of Summer....."?

new forum message bibtex keys: making them more useful

2009-06-18T11:16:50+00:00

I have a question about the the authoryearfirstword keys that are generated by citeulike. If the first word is an article (a, an, the) are they not considered first words? Is there some way I can make citeulike recognize them as first words?

new forum message Edit out the authors

2009-06-18T07:02:04+00:00

But unfortunately is says:

Also, this doesn't work for authors and editors (yet).

new forum message Edit out the authors

2009-06-17T21:23:02+00:00

Thank you! (I am getting sloppier in searching for solutions since the feedback here is so awesome. ;-))

new forum message Edit out the authors

2009-06-17T21:09:16+00:00

From the FAQ :

Simply blanking out the value doesn't work because this means that you don't want to provide a replacement value and CiteULike will default back to the value it got from the original article, namely "-".

The solution is to put "//" in the field. This is a special marker to tell CiteULike that you want to override the default value with a empty one.

In the dropdown for "month", the equivalent is the "none" item.

All articles need a title, so you can't blank that. Also, this doesn't work for authors and editors (yet).

new forum thread Edit out the authors

2009-06-17T20:41:21+00:00

I have been trying to delete the authors in this citation since its a book and I only need the editors' names.

However, every time I clear out the author field and click update details, the author names come right back on. What am I missing?

new forum message browser button in firefox -- instructions don't appear

2009-06-17T18:11:44+00:00

Are you using Firefox 2? We have a known bug with that.

new forum message bibtex keys: making them more useful

2009-06-17T17:56:01+00:00

It would be really really helpful if the bibtex (authoryearfirstword) key were displayed somewhere prominently on the article page - below the citation would be ideal. That way, I could just cite the key without having to worry about discrepancies when I download the *.bib file into jabref.

new forum thread browser button in firefox -- instructions don't appear

2009-06-17T17:44:32+00:00

The help page for "How to post a paper to CiteULike" says "If you're using another browser you can go to the instructions for Firefox or Safari". But those links are dead. The link is to "show_stuff('ff')", but when I click it nothing happens.

new forum message ISI Web of Science

2009-06-17T13:31:13+00:00

Yes, but they have a OAI interface:

     e.g., http://www.doaj.org/oai.article?verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:doaj-articles:b533482cda79114b044b9047d506801d&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

(that's not the same article!)

The article page has no oai identifier to use as a query. Double argh.

new forum message ISI Web of Science

2009-06-17T12:48:21+00:00

I agree, it's a shame DOAJ don't publish DC metadata themselves.

new forum message add tags to watchlist?

2009-06-17T12:38:52+00:00

That's fixed now.

new forum message add tags to watchlist?

2009-06-17T12:10:51+00:00

Hmmm. I don't know what's happened. I'll look into it. In the meantime you can do it "by hand" using the following URL:

    http://www.citeulike.org/watch?tag=r

Or - obviously - edit the "tag=r" bit for a different tag.

new forum thread add tags to watchlist?

2009-06-17T11:54:01+00:00

Hi all,

Is there a way to add a tag to the watchlist? I know it used to work since I am currently following one, but the 'watch' button is missing whenever I go to a page like http://www.citeulike.org/tag/r

Any feedback is welcome,

Yann

new forum message ISI Web of Science

2009-06-16T20:40:27+00:00

Argh. Sooo annoying. If one follows the links, one can get to a page with FANTASTIC metadata (look at the HTML sourcee). But this is hidden within a frameset with no obvious automated link from the original page.

Welcome to my world...

new forum message ISI Web of Science

2009-06-16T20:31:59+00:00

oh that's a shame, many colleagues of mine use it as their default search engine for articles and you would definitely expand your user base if you supported it. Most universities are likely to provide IP-based access to WoS to their staff and students. Not that I am particularly happy to make a case in support of ISI, but I think you guys should consider this.

new forum message ISI Web of Science

2009-06-16T20:28:14+00:00

There is actual content for journals with a "DOAJ content" tag, see for example this article

new forum message ISI Web of Science

2009-06-16T18:17:17+00:00

Same reason. *double sobs*. We're more optimistic about Scopus, though.

new forum message ISI Web of Science

2009-06-16T18:12:35+00:00

Scopus is not supported either. :(

new forum message ISI Web of Science

2009-06-16T17:43:47+00:00

Unfortunately, we can't get access to ISI. *sobs*

new forum message ISI Web of Science

2009-06-16T17:37:12+00:00

That just seems to be a "meta-directory" with no actual content. We have to support each journal individually. Any in particular?

new forum message ISI Web of Science

2009-06-16T17:24:48+00:00

and DOAJ ?

new forum thread ISI Web of Science

2009-06-16T17:13:34+00:00

not supported?

new forum message tabbing to quick enter keywords great - but can't get out of the field

2009-06-16T12:15:48+00:00

It's probably my code. I'll ask the boss man to buy me a Mac so I can testing these things properly ... :-)

new forum message tabbing to quick enter keywords great - but can't get out of the field

2009-06-16T12:12:12+00:00

For what it's worth, tab completion of keywords doesn't work correctly on the Mac using Safari 3.x and 4.0. Instead, tabs bounce the focus to other fields. I'm not sure if this is because I'm doing something dumb (very possible) or if there's an incompatibility.

Cheers

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-16T11:15:42+00:00

Definite improvement: [HELP] is waay more descriptive than [?]. :)

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-15T09:41:56+00:00

Excellent, thanks.

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-15T09:05:32+00:00

I've added a link to it from the Library Search page.

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-15T08:00:11+00:00

Second that - please make the detailed search syntax more visible!

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-14T22:51:38+00:00

Maybe you could add a link to the detailed search syntax in your news article on the front page.

new forum message Sorting and exporting author's publications

2009-06-14T19:13:18+00:00

Thanks! And you don't need to have gone to Emma to be forgiven :-)

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-06-14T19:13:18+00:00

They're here:

http://www.citeulike.org/user/GI-Sci/author/di+Ceglie

The tag cloud of author names has "de Ceglie" at the end of the tag cloud. (Aside: it's like that because it sorts the author in a simple and stupid way where lowercase 'a' comes after uppercase 'Z'. It's been like that forever, and if you moaned that it was a bug, I'd have to agree with you.)

new forum message Mendeley + CiteULike = ??

2009-06-14T14:24:32+00:00

Heh, I think you need to tell Mendeley this, not CuL ;-)

I did! I posted on their blog. I have been told that the support group will be contacting me for details shortly. Since I posted the thread here first, I will be posting updates here as well. :)

new forum message Mendeley + CiteULike = ??

2009-06-14T13:34:06+00:00

Heh, I think you need to tell Mendeley this, not CuL ;-) You can give them feedback here (I write over there as andrew_s)

Yes, the desktop software is a memory hog. It does have its uses, but it's clearly a rough work-in-progress. Two-way syncing will be great, when it arrives.

new forum message Sorting and exporting author's publications

2009-06-14T13:13:09+00:00

Your articles have been indexed now. Try again. Showing 4 & 9 articles respectively.

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-06-14T11:48:30+00:00

And, now, having changed the incorrect case of the two of the three in that smaller group that were wrong, the author now fails to appear in the Authors listing at all. Guess they've all gone to the invisible group. :-(

new forum message Sorting and exporting author's publications

2009-06-14T08:05:56+00:00

Rats. Those search options are BRAND NEW today. I had assumed the database had indexed everything by now, but it's only 2/3rds of the way through. Give it a few hours, this arvo. ideally and try again. If it still doesn't work, let me know.

Sorry for the (temporary) bum steer. You'll surely forgive an old Emma alumnus...

UPDATE: There was a small buglet in some code which was blocking the update. It might take a bit longer than I estimated above

new forum message Sorting and exporting author's publications

2009-06-14T07:58:38+00:00

Go to "My CiteULike" -> "Search"

+year:2007 +ownpub:Y

This doesn't seem to work correctly for me.

http://www.citeulike.org/search/username?q=%2Byear%3A2007+%2Bownpub%3AY&search=Search+library&username=tnhh produces 0 articles even though http://www.citeulike.org/profile/tnhh/publications has some 2007 articles.

http://www.citeulike.org/search/username?q=%2Byear%3A2008+%2Bownpub%3AY&search=Search+library&username=tnhh returns 3 results but I am not sure why these are selected (I have more than 3 2008 papers).

I am logged in so I don't think it's an antispam issue.

new forum message Sorting and exporting author's publications

2009-06-14T06:59:36+00:00

Select an author's publications from a given year (and ideally export just this subset to bibtex/HTML/etc)

Go to "My CiteULike" -> "Search"

     +year:2007 +ownpub:Y

Unfortunately you can export this list (it's a bug), but you can tag all the results http://www.citeulike.org/howto?show=sec2-1 and then view this tag and export that list.

new forum thread Sorting and exporting author's publications

2009-06-14T06:46:49+00:00

Hi,

Is it possible to do the following? I have looked through the HOWTO/FAQ/discussion but may have missed something.

Export bibtex for a given author. I tried http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/profile/tnhh/ but that didn't seem to work.
Order an author's publications by year. I tried http://www.citeulike.org/profile/tnhh/publications/order/pubdate,desc,last but that didn't work.
Select an author's publications from a given year (and ideally export just this subset to bibtex/HTML/etc)

These features would make CiteULike very useful for producing research activity reports.

PS Thanks for a great tool. CiteULike is now indispensable to my workflow.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-06-13T10:26:24+00:00

I love the right-click menus for that very reason. I now have no idea why I felt compelled to post that request when I use it so very rarely!! :S

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-06-13T07:21:34+00:00

Yes, we did I'm afraid. We had lots of complaints (including from my colleagues) that, because of the slight delay, users would click to open the menu, which would then take them to a page they didn't want to go to, and then have to open the menu again.

I'm going to rewrite the menus in the near future to make them snappier.

All of us here much prefer the "right click" menus, anyway. I would have thought that's much easier with RSI - no need to move the mouse all the way across the screen.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-06-13T00:07:11+00:00

Did you revoke this? Could we please have it back? Clicking is more efficient than the 1 second-delay hovering. Plus hovering with a stylus is not as easy as hovering with the mouse (that I can't use anymore because of RSI).

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-12T15:33:05+00:00

Yeah, a new "author" field that almost works as you'd expect,

     author:"smith j" 
     author:"smith jd" 
     author:"smith j d" 
     author:"smith john" 
     author:"smith john d"

even (and feeling smug on this one), works when one forgets accents so "Lopez" matches "López"

Oh, double yeah, a field "ownpub:Y|N" to match articles you flagged as your own publications.

I'm repeating the caveat from above in case someone else sees this - only a few users (incl. you) can use this for old articles until after the weekend. (Mon 15th) (I'd appreciate any bug reports.)

new forum thread Mendeley + CiteULike = ??

2009-06-12T13:19:28+00:00

I am really quite excited that CiteULike and Mendeley are collaborating. I desperately wanted this to work because this collaboration and the resulting "citing while you write" feature is probably the only thing missing from CiteULike.

However, after trying out the Mendeley interface and desktop software for a week now, I am not so thrilled. There are a number of things that go insanely wrong. I have a library of around 3500+. The import takes AGES. I agree that it's not magic and maybe the library is that vast so it was a reasonable amount of time. However, everytime I click create bibliography on Microsoft Word, Mendeley starts up and brings my computer to its knees. It's a HUGE memory hog. I have 2GB RAM and yet, all the other applications become sluggish or just stop responding after a while. It is an extremely unpleasant experience. :( The web features of Mendeley are nice, but I am beyond spoiled with what I have with CiteULike.

I am so sorry that I am whining like this, but really folks, if you want your collaboration to work, you are going to have to fix your resource-hogging desktop software. There is no way in writing-land that people are going to like the pain of struggling with system crashes on top of an intensive period of writing, and especially in comparison to an effortless and lightweight CiteULike experience.

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-12T13:03:13+00:00

Thanks so very much! This is awesome. Are there any other newer fields?

PS: That was a self-portrait at the time of reading your post. ;-)

new forum message [COMPLETED] view posts: "This article has been bookmarked once, on ."

2009-06-12T09:10:13+00:00

We aim to please...

new forum message [COMPLETED] view posts: "This article has been bookmarked once, on ."

2009-06-12T09:02:31+00:00

Wow! I'm impressed at that speed and effectiveness. Thank you. Please can you pass on some tips to your collaborators at Mendeley? You do in minutes what they take weeks to do.

new forum message [COMPLETED] view posts: "This article has been bookmarked once, on ."

2009-06-12T08:56:59+00:00

That's fixed now. Thanks for reporting the problem.

new forum thread [COMPLETED] view posts: "This article has been bookmarked once, on ."

2009-06-12T08:38:05+00:00

If you view an article, via the journals page, that hasn't been bookmarked yet, then on the article-posts page, it says "This article has been bookmarked once, on ." (with the "on" just left dangling)

I guess the article-posts page code wasn't expecting to find an article that had never been bookmarked (how else would it be in the system)? But, of course, with all these journal articles from rss feeds, there are lots of articles that haven't (yet) been bookmarked.

At the time of posting this, here's an example - obviously, if someone goes and bookmarks it, you'll need another example.

If an article then gets bookmarked, the article-posts page seems to behave ok.

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-11T06:08:56+00:00

For that nice piccie, I've bumped you up the queue. Can search for

     year:2007 or year:none
     (similar for issn, isbn)
     bibkey:Fred2008 or bibkey:none (this only works searching your own library)

new forum message Search by BibTeX key

2009-06-11T06:05:59+00:00

I've added that - search for "bibkey:xxxxxx" when searching your own library. The full database will be updated at the weekend, but I've manually updated all your articles for you to try. As a special case, you can also search for "bibkey:none"

new forum message Update via Crossref

2009-06-11T01:22:20+00:00

Oh well. You know what they say about human touches - prone to random illogical errors. ;-)

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-11T01:16:51+00:00

new forum message Update via Crossref

2009-06-10T21:23:40+00:00

As I mentioned above, crossref's data (especially authors) isn't anywhere near as reliable as it should be. For example, there's this hardly heard of paper:

     http://www.citeulike.org/user/thegoose/article/197238

I dunno, 100 authors? Crossref has, er, 1. This is quite common. I really think an automated crossref "corrected" export would do as much harm as good - I feel it really needs the human touch unless we can develop some heuristics to decide when CrossRef's data is better than what we've got through the normal channels.

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-10T20:45:46+00:00

That fix is done (along with some bonus levels) but you'll need to wait until after the weekend, when the search database gets rebuilt.

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-10T17:10:43+00:00

I'm going to add both bibtex-key and year to search.

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-10T17:03:55+00:00

I think there is a genuine need for searching by year. I don't think there is a way to do this now, is there? Now that I can export all the bibtex keys by authoryearfirstword, searching by surname:author AND year:xxxx would be really helpful to locate those papers quickly.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T16:19:16+00:00

There's the puppy

document.location = "http://www.citeulike.org/profile/" + username + "/import_go";

I've emailed the author to inform him.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T15:20:07+00:00

Could be ad-block, noscript or greasemonkey doing something bad.

Bingo. Good suggestion. I found the culprit by sequentially eliminating the greasemonkeys. The Google Scholar Citations to My Library in CiteULike script is doing something funky to cause the problem. I got rid of it. Thanks for the troubleshooting thegoose & LondonAnalytics!

PS: Believe it or not, I actually like the ads on CUL! Annual Reviews and the Sage journals are pretty useful now and then.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T14:31:53+00:00

What happens if you disable all addons in Firefox, restart it, then retry?

Could be ad-block, noscript or greasemonkey doing something bad.

Check cookie settings too.

new forum message Update via Crossref

2009-06-10T13:35:46+00:00

Wouldn't it be awesome if you could compile a bibliography using citeulike, feed the output .bib file through crossref, have it check if all the details are fine and have suggestions/corrections from crossref presented to you in the form of a "corrected" .bib file?

Or you could have a button during export that automates this process and then churns out a "corrected" export option. Is such a thing possible?

PS: I love the fact that I can correct all the "aop" fields in my citations with crossref. They are big pain that never seem to get updated on NCBI and publisher pages.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T08:52:41+00:00

Well that's just "impossible"! You could have a transparent proxy but that (probably) wouldn't explain why Opera works, unless it's being used on a different network.

Of course, I'm just making a random guess about the cause.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T08:45:34+00:00

It is always the same page whenever I log in. When I reload my library address, I am logged in regardless of the message on that page.

Firefox is set to no proxy.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T08:05:24+00:00

I'm using exactly the same version of FF 3.0.10, but on Linux.

it takes me to this page [http://www.citeulike.org/profile//import_go]

Is it always the same page? I wonder if you have a proxy on your network doing something dumb? Are you able to disable it and see what happens?

     Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings -> No Proxy

new forum message [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T07:49:16+00:00

You know what's strange? It only happens when I am using Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Opera doesn't have this issue.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T07:44:14+00:00

Thanks for pushing that button. :) For a while there I thought it was my disastrous ISP.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T06:34:44+00:00

I have wanted to report this for a while now. When I login from here (the front page of citeulike) or from my library it takes me to this page that says: ....

Hmmm, I can't replicate that.

new forum message Batch/edit delete function

2009-06-10T06:33:47+00:00

If you go to "MyCiteULike" -> "Tags", you can rename and delete tags. Renaming works with wildcards "unwanted-*" -> "bettertag"

new forum message [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T06:28:05+00:00

PS: Is there some ongoing trouble with the servers? I have been getting a number of gateway timeouts.

I think so - Mr Restart seems to have done his job well

new forum thread [COMPLETED] Login Sequence

2009-06-10T05:05:19+00:00

I have wanted to report this for a while now. When I login from here (the front page of citeulike) or from my library it takes me to this page that says:

Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server. AOLserver/4.5.0 on http://www.citeulike.org

Isn't it supposed to reload the page I was on earlier?

PS: Is there some ongoing trouble with the servers? I have been getting a number of gateway timeouts.

new forum message Batch/edit delete function

2009-06-09T23:04:07+00:00

I just found myself in a similar position: I wanted to remove a tag from a bunch of articles. But keep the articles ... It wasn't my motivation this time, but tag mis-spellings is a classic example.

At the risk of offering an approach to think about, maybe the way iTunes does it would be helpful: clicking on "edit" with multiple things selected gives you a page with the common bits filled in, and the areas where they differ blank. That wouldn't fix my tag problem immediately, but if there was also a way to remove a tag (if present) by prefixing it with a "-", then I could enter "-unwantedtag bettertag" and the old tag would be removed from all the entries it was contained in, and replaced by the new, better one.

new forum thread bibtex keys: making them more useful

2009-06-09T22:57:38+00:00

Hi. I'd love the ability to show my bibtex keys in the normal list of documents. e.g.

[bibtexkey] {icons} title additional citation info...

I'd love to be able to sort a list on their bibtex keys (the .../order/... trick).

(As suggested elsewhere) I'd love to be able to search on [parts of] bibtex keys.

I'd love to be able to find entries with missing bibtex keys.

Thanks!

new forum message Search by BibTeX key

2009-06-09T22:49:26+00:00

Thanks - I had the same question. Here's one more vote for search-on-bibtex key, though, so I can do things like pattern-matching against keys in an advanced search (e.g., if I can't remember exactly how the key is spelled).

FYI, I note that the key is case-sensitive, unlike lots of other things in citeulike. Perhaps that could/should be changed? i.e., .../key/cheliotis2003 doesn't match a bibtex key of Cheliotis2003. Given that it's a search, I'd love it to match all case-combinations. (I suppose it's possible that people have relied on the case differentiation to give different articles the same key with only case differences. I'd counter-argue that such people must have been out to lunch at the time :-).)

new forum message Missing abstract when importing from ACM Digital Library

2009-06-09T22:38:44+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. Perhaps this can be turned into a feature request: if a URL has been imported, remember something about the state of that import that allows you to determine whether the content has been changed since then (e.g., a hash of the content you would import), and let CiteULike re-import stuff if it's changed. At the least, you could tell us when you did the data import, so we can scan for glitches if that date was long ago. Thanks.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Can't post from work even though javascript appears enabled

2009-06-09T19:31:41+00:00

I'm able to post from work now. Thanks SO much for the speedy resolution of the problem.

new forum message [COMPLETED] Can't post from work even though javascript appears enabled

2009-06-09T19:19:27+00:00

I have flagged your account as a "non-spammer" so that particular problem shouldn't happen any more. Can't guarantee about other parts of the site, though

new forum message [COMPLETED] Can't post from work even though javascript appears enabled

2009-06-09T19:15:01+00:00

I don't know where to look for additional clues. I can post just fine from home, or from other locations. I just started using CiteULike. The first time I tried to post from work, I get that error message. It's been the same ever since.

Perhaps you could suggest some things I can look at or test, and I'll report back?

new forum message [COMPLETED] Can't post from work even though javascript appears enabled

2009-06-09T18:42:59+00:00

I've just tried with IE6 and it's fine for me. Can you give me some more information? I notice that "mebiel" problem was sorted and that user has been posting happily as recently as yesterday (but I don't know which browser).

new forum thread [COMPLETED] Can't post from work even though javascript appears enabled

2009-06-09T18:32:34+00:00

I am having a problem similar to the one described by "mebiel" on 2008-05-08. I also work at a VA hospital. I use IE6. Internet options appear set to enable java scripts. However, anytime I try to post an article, I get the error message:

" CiteULike requires javascript to be enabled while posting articles (it helps to deter spammers). If you're seeing this and you think your browser is enabled to support javascript then please contact . "

new forum message Batch/edit delete function

2009-06-09T06:32:48+00:00

It's not much harder the way described in the Howto. Click on the checkboxes for multiple articles and add the tag "to-delete" (say) in the box that appears at the top of the page. Click on that tag and selected "Delete all 'to-delete' articles". Depending on the number of articles, that may be actually fewer clicks than what you suggest as any one-click delete button would require an "Are you sure?" popup for each article.

new forum message Sorting by date of publication

2009-06-09T01:07:09+00:00

It would be awesome if we could:

Sort search results by the same criteria as all the tagged article lists
Sort the list of articles that turns up in "everyone's tag"

Wishful thinking? Or Maybe maybe planned in the future? :)

new forum message Batch/edit delete function

2009-06-08T22:34:49+00:00

At the moment it is difficult if you just want to delete sections of the library. What if I were weeding out multiple articles that were no longer relevant to me but they had very different tags as they were on different topics? That would be incredibly tedious. In delicious there is a bulk edit function that allows you to a) share/unshare multiple links b)quickly select which articles to delete in one click without need for changing tags. It is really simple and easy to use and would make citeulike so much more user-friendly.

new forum message Groups- newly invited members (even those with restricted access) are able to invite new members.

2009-06-08T15:15:02+00:00

OK - that's done. If you go to the admin page for your group(s) you should see a section labelled Invitations.

new forum message Groups- newly invited members (even those with restricted access) are able to invite new members.

2009-06-08T13:45:28+00:00

Hmmm. That doesn't sound unreasonable. Watch this space...

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-06-08T13:35:54+00:00

Headline: two spellings of the surname

"Di Ceglie" (3 articles)
"di Ceglie" (8 articles)

That's most of the explanation, but not all. I'll update this thread when I have more.

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-06-08T12:41:34+00:00

And...? I'm a bit scared that I'm going to find papers of other authors "missing".

new forum message Batch/edit delete function

2009-06-08T08:29:57+00:00

Please explain what you mean in a bit more detail - I don't use delicious.

I terms of deleting, there are many options to delete multiple articles. See the Howto pages

You can also tag multiple articles at the same time, also described there.

new forum thread Batch/edit delete function

2009-06-08T08:16:44+00:00

It would be really nice to be able to do this like you can in delicious.

new forum thread Groups- newly invited members (even those with restricted access) are able to invite new members.

2009-06-08T07:59:42+00:00

Help! At the moment all users of a group have the privilege of inviting other users to join (even those with restricted access). Is it possible to have an option where ONLY the administators are able to invite new people to join? I have permission to share a particular article within my circle but not with a wider audience. If someone I invite then invites someone else from outside the circle I may be in trouble.

new forum message Using the Bookmarklet: add date to screen and Post And Stay-Button

2009-06-06T05:32:54+00:00

There is a very nifty and efficient workaround. Install this greasemonkey script and you will never have to worry about the wrong http address on the NCBI pages again.

new forum message Using the Bookmarklet: add date to screen and Post And Stay-Button

2009-06-06T05:29:17+00:00

why am I redirected to the article page again?

Why *is* that? As the official whiner, I'd like to add my whine to this point. I think it's a statistically significant waste of time to be lead back to the NCBI or whatever original posting page again (because I promptly locate something else to distract me). Could you please consider changing this behaviour and take us to the newly posted CiteULike article page instead?

authorYear, and at this step I usually don't have it.

+1 Would be very useful to have the year displayed along with the title on the posting page.

new forum message Citation Format Request: J Am Diet Assoc

2009-06-05T04:48:38+00:00

Yes, unless you/we can locate a bst file, it's probably not something we can do ourselves. Keep looking though - there's usually SOMETHING out there.

But in the near future we hope to change away from BibTeX - a pain for the above reason and performance. Watch this space.

new forum message Bulk move from library to Group

2009-06-05T03:05:50+00:00

Thanks for the replies and the offer of help. Right now, there aren't too many that I need to move, so I can just do it myself on one-by-one basis. I was just hoping I didn't have to, and also, just thought that it would a useful feature. Look forward to when it's implemented.

new forum thread Citation Format Request: J Am Diet Assoc

2009-06-04T21:00:45+00:00

The citation format for publishing in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association differs somewhat from your available formats. According to the author guidelines, http://www.adajournal.org/authorinfo, "The Journal follows the AMA Manual of Style, 10th ed, for references. One exception is that reference citations in the Journal must list all authors' names; use of 'et al' is not acceptable."

The "JAMA" format on citeulike is very different because it lists full first names. The "Vancouver" format is close. The journal citation format we use at JADA is:

lastname initials, lastname initials. Article title. (italics)Journal Title.(/italics) Year;Volume:start_page-end_page.

The differences from "Vancouver" are: (1) no "et al" allowed; (2) no issue number; (3) no month, or date, just year.

I saw you request a "bibtex style" for another format request. I've no idea whether an adajournal.bst (or something using this format) exists. I googled a bit and looked around CTAN to no avail. I hope the above is enough detail. (Though, looking at other bst files, I won't get my hopes up. They look like a pain to write.)

Thanks.

new forum message Add to Favorites overridden by Context Menu in Internet Explorer

2009-06-04T19:30:14+00:00

Seems to work well. Thanks.

new forum message Active X problem

2009-06-04T19:08:05+00:00

We'll, I can replicate that. But even adding all www.citeulike.org static.citeulike.org citeulike.org to the "Trusted Zone" and setting that levels securty to LOW didn't help. I also failed implementing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy by explicitly setting document.domain = "citeulike.org" (in case my JavaScript hunch were true).

We have reports of some security warnings with Firefox 2 as well, but we don't have many people using that any more, unlike IE.

Ho Hum.

new forum message Add to Favorites overridden by Context Menu in Internet Explorer

2009-06-04T18:51:31+00:00

I think I've fixed that. If one right-clicks on a link, the normal menu is restored.

new forum message Add to Favorites overridden by Context Menu in Internet Explorer

2009-06-04T18:38:47+00:00

Good call - this needs updating. You don't need to disable the menu, as ctrl-right click brings up the normal menu.

new forum thread Add to Favorites overridden by Context Menu in Internet Explorer

2009-06-04T18:27:14+00:00

A small(?) documentation problem introduced by the "Context Menu." The citeulike instructions for Internet Explorer say:

2. Add this to your Links toolbar: Post to CiteULike

Right click on the link above and select "Add to Favorites..."

However, when you right click (as a new user) the (new) Context Menu pops up and you cannot "Add to Favorites."

I did work around this by the menu "myciteulike -> Context Menu", disabled the menu, and was then able to "Add to Favorites."

new forum message Active X problem

2009-06-04T18:08:00+00:00

Thanks for the info. I'll try it out. Very curious as I said as we have none of that stuff on the site. My best guess is that its a misreported JavaScript problem (maybe JavaScript is effectively ActiveX). Some of out JavaScript is loaded from a slightly different domain (static.citeulike.org). If I (or you!) can find a specific library which causes the above problem, I'll try loading it from the primary domain so see if it makes a difference.

new forum message format citations in chosen style under all views

2009-06-04T17:57:51+00:00

I was referring to the list format (per original request "in all of the other views"). But yes, for my purpose of just grabbing one or two items, going into the article is a reasonable option.

Thanks.

new forum message Active X problem

2009-06-04T17:48:04+00:00

For what it is worth, I have this "problem" as well. That is, I have the "Your security settings..." message across the top of the browser on all citeulike pages using IE 7. However, I have not yet seen lack of functionality from citeulike due to the settings. My log out and log in links work.

I know that this message can happen from javascript depending on what part of the DOM you are accessing.

The message is turned on/off by toggling: Tools (menu) -> Internet Options ... (opens form) -> Security (tab)

In "Security level for this zone", click "Custom level..."

Scroll down to ActiveX controls and plug-ins, **Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins.** Disable/Enable

I keep mine disabled because IE has taught me not to trust it. My workaround is to switch to FireFox for sites that need the functionality.

new forum message format citations in chosen style under all views

2009-06-04T17:35:59+00:00

I think you might have misunderstood. The formatting on the actual article page IS customizable (using the dropdown near the top), which seems to fit your requirement.

e.g., for http://www.citeulike.org/user/EEsterling/article/4746075

     Plain -> J. Nutr., Vol. 128, No. 6. (1 June 1998), pp. 1048-1050.
     Chigaco -> Massey, L. K. (1998, June). Does excess dietary protein adversely affect bone? symposium overview. J. Nutr.  128 (6), 1048-1050.
     APS -> L. K. Massey, J. Nutr. 128, 1048 (1998), URL http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/128/6/1048.
     etc.

So if you only need 1 or 2 articles, this is only slightly less convenient than having the chosen format on the "list" views (e.g., "My Library").

new forum message Tags of more than one words?

2009-06-04T17:29:41+00:00

If you want to search for both possibilities, (folic-acid and folic_acid) try searching for

     tag:(folic?acid OR folicacid)

http://www.citeulike.org/search/all?q=tag%3A(folic%3Facid+OR+folicacid)

new forum message format citations in chosen style under all views

2009-06-04T17:26:52+00:00

I know you said, "that's not possible at the moment," but want to add a +1 for wanting this feature in the future. Often, after doing research, I want to cite just one article in discussions. It would be nice if I could do so right from my library rather than first exporting it.

new forum message Tags of more than one words?

2009-06-04T17:03:54+00:00

Agreed. I expected something like commas separating tag phrases to work. So, for example, "folate, folic acid, B12" should be three tags, not four. "Acid" by itself isn't very useful and searchers are more likely to type in "folic acid" than "folate". To get results for "acid" isn't what they are looking for.

new forum message "et al" instead of long author list

2009-06-04T14:58:35+00:00

No - a percentage of other users' subscriptions. More work. More gain.

new forum message "et al" instead of long author list

2009-06-04T12:47:41+00:00

Where's my paycheck?

Yeah, yeah, I know, it's being paid as a discount off my CuL subscription ...

new forum message "et al" instead of long author list

2009-06-04T12:38:57+00:00

C'mon LA, where's the expandAllEtAls option? :-)

Summat like:

     jQuery(".etal").hide();
     jQuery(".etallist").show();

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-06-04T12:29:34+00:00

new function added to my script, as per this CuL thread

Set showDetailsInLibrary = false, on line 15, to suppress the default listing of article details on library and search screens

new forum message "et al" instead of long author list

2009-06-04T12:16:26+00:00

script updated accordingly: jessopher, if you're using Firefox and Greasemonkey, then install the script as linked to by thegoose, and change true to false on line 15:

showDetailsInLibrary = true,

new forum message "et al" instead of long author list

2009-06-04T09:17:12+00:00

If we could have it say "et al" instead of a long author list when the author list gets too long and we could see the full list when clicking on details.

Done. If the list is longer than 6, you'll see a clickable "et al.". No option to re-collapse.

new forum message "et al" instead of long author list

2009-06-04T07:27:23+00:00

If you use FireFox, you might be able to customise this script

     http://gist.github.com/67945

to do whatever you want, regardless of options we give you.

(The relevant function to call is "toggle_article_details(false)")

new forum message Show notes in your library without clicking details

2009-06-04T07:22:12+00:00

That might be available sooner than you could possibly guess....

new forum thread Show notes in your library without clicking details

2009-06-04T07:07:03+00:00

It would be nice if some notes would show up under the articles in your library so you could peruse at a glance rather than reading your notes by clicking on them

new forum thread "et al" instead of long author list

2009-06-04T07:04:24+00:00

Either (1) allow us to have "hide details" toggled by default or (2) If we could have it say "et al" instead of a long author list when the author list gets too long and we could see the full list when clicking on details.

That would be really nice!

new forum message Generate bibtext key

2009-06-04T06:39:24+00:00

authorname-year-firstword

Do you mean that literally - with the hyphens?? We already have AuthornameYearFirstword as an option on the export page.

See this discussion to see how you can bookmark a particular download format http://www.citeulike.org/groupforum/1056?highlight=13223#msg_13223

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-04T06:37:24+00:00

The FAQ and the Howto definitely need merging. The original idea was the for the Howto to be mainly stuff from users (mostly you!) but seems to have evolved from that a bit. The old FAQ in now horribly out of date but there are still a few nuggets in there.

I think the Search needs it's own help, though.

new forum message Generate bibtext key

2009-06-04T01:22:01+00:00

There have been several posts about automatic bibtex key generation lately. Is it implemented? I would love to have authorname-year-firstword as the automatic bibtex key as well.

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-03T22:06:57+00:00

Which reminds me...

There's that small [?], there's a FAQ and then there is a HOWTo. A trifle too many, don't you think? Why not combine all these tips and questions into one page called [HELP!!!] (with sections, called FAQ, HOWTO, and [The tiny unspoken question mark]).

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-03T22:00:09+00:00

to load the data dynamically

Scopus fetches the abstracts dynamically and their searches load at a decent speed.

I agree that pre-loading 50 abstracts can be a bit too much. If you implemented it maybe you could give the users a choice of how many citations they'd like to see on their opening page? That would leave some decisions about speed in the user's hands.

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-06-03T15:40:08+00:00

Good stuff. Thanks.

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-06-03T15:18:47+00:00

there you go: http://www.academicproductivity.com/2009/citeulike-bibdesk-sync-your-references-and-live-smarter/

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-03T15:14:59+00:00

They have collapsible abstracts along with the citation list. I think that might be a good idea for CiteULike as well.

Actually, we've been thinking about it for some time (and similary for notes) The main (only?) problem is browsing speed - it every article (on a list of upto 50) has a hidden abstract, that impacts significantly on the page load time, but the bloat is data that is relatively rarely seen. The alternative might be to use "AJAX" (q.v.) to load the data dynamically - but that's one more reason for non-JavaScript users to hate us.

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-03T15:03:33+00:00

I knew there was a reason we had the little [?] next to the search box - http://www.citeulike.org/search_help :-)

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-03T14:16:53+00:00

surname:"hewitt" in the search box

Ah! I think I used to know that at some point but the word "surname" is awfully non-intuitive. Couldn't you rename that tag "author" (and specify below that only surnames would work?)

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-06-03T14:02:05+00:00

I have it - don't panic...

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-03T13:57:13+00:00

surname:"hewitt" in the search box

Unfortunately, you can't use firstname/initials :-(

click on an author e.g., http://www.citeulike.org/user/Zephyrus/article/4723065 -> http://www.citeulike.org/user/Zephyrus/author/Hewitt:SC then click on see everyones Hewitt:SC

(To expand the search to look for Hewitt:S, you have to edit the URL by hand - this is a poke to remind me to add that)

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-06-03T13:34:20+00:00

I signed up for Mendeley yesterday. They have collapsible abstracts along with the citation list. I think that might be a good idea for CiteULike as well.

The extra filters (author, author-keywords, publications) are pretty handy. I really want to be able to search by author in CiteULike. Is there a way to do this apart from going to the authors page and pressing Ctrl-F?

Apart from that, after looking 24/7 at the neutral tones of CiteULike, I am having such a tough time with all that RED!

new forum message Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-03T08:55:16+00:00

which suggests bibtex export should do some basic field validation/stripping

I've done that for the year in AuthorYearTitle at least. In general we're quite cautious about too much validation - sometimes articles have funny stuff in their fields.

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-06-03T08:27:20+00:00

Replied on 30th May

new forum message Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-03T07:17:27+00:00

I found the culprit - it was the same record with a broken key that I reported in the previous thread. Publication year was "# 2000" which generated a broken AuthorYearTitle key (which suggests bibtex export should do some basic field validation/stripping). Everything works fine now, thanks so much!

As you have been playing with URL parameters to override bibtex settings, what are your thoughts about the suggestion I made some months ago to implement key schemes such as these ?

new forum message Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-03T06:33:35+00:00

Should be able to. Multiple params are part of HTTP spec, and that's how HTML forms work (especially a form with multiple checkboxes). And all APIs I've ever seen know about it with e.g., separate getSingleParam("fred") and getMultipleParam("fred") functions.

My example above produces

    @article{Hogg09,
        author = {Hogg, Tad   and Lerman, Kristina  },
        fred = {4502265},
        thegoose-is-the-bestest = {2009-05-11 10:09:11},
        ..... etc.
    }

as expected.

When I try (1) and (3), I get EXACTLY the same results. Is (3) correctly entered, or did you mean

     http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/dartar?fieldmap=posted-at:date-added&do_username_prefix=0&key_type=4

which looks fine to me, but there are no special chars in there to mess up!!

If you can let me know a specific article_id that fails, I'll look into it.

new forum message Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-02T23:29:59+00:00

Oh, and I am not sure you can use the same GET parameter multiple times in your URI!

new forum message Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-02T23:17:21+00:00

Note about (2): the field name in BibDesk is actually Date-Added (not Date-Created).

new forum message Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-02T23:16:29+00:00

Awesome!

I tried combining field remapping and the AuthorYearTitle key option and it looks like the parameters generate some kind of conflict:

(1) http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/dartar?do_username_prefix=0&key_type=4 generates a valid bibtex

(2) http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/dartar?fieldmap=posted-at:date-added valid bibtex as well

(3) http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/dartar?do_username_prefix=0&key_type=4&do_username_prefix=0&key_type=4 produces parsing errors and a lot of warnings, as if the conversion/escaping of special characters (quotes in particular) had stopped working.

new forum message Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-02T16:39:30+00:00

OK, I've added an option to map any field to any other.

     http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/dartar/article/4502265?fieldmap=posted-at:thegoose-is-the-bestest&fieldmap=citeulike-article-id:fred

i.e., a set of

     fieldmap=<oldval>:<newval>

Ladies and Gentlemen - I thank you

new forum message Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-02T15:58:19+00:00

Straight on it...

new forum message Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-02T15:55:13+00:00

problem is Date-Created is not standard BibTeX either, so you would need to add all possible variations used by reference managers :-| lacking user preferences, an extra URL parameter would be a neater solution indeed. I only need Date-Created to sort references chronologically.

new forum message Clearing fields

2009-06-02T13:49:36+00:00

Duh! forget the obvious, British-only gag:

is it "Blank" or "Blankety-Blank"?

ta-daaa

I thank you.

new forum message Clearing fields

2009-06-02T13:13:57+00:00

Great! Thanks!

new forum message Using the Bookmarklet: add date to screen and Post And Stay-Button

2009-06-02T13:13:13+00:00

OK. You can enter "pmid:nnnnnnn" (or just "nnnnnnn") on the posting page.

new forum message Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-02T12:58:32+00:00

My first thought is simply supply BOTH Posted-At AND Date-Created. We don't store modification dates.

Would that work for you?

A "neater" option would be HTTP option like "map-Posted-At=Date-created" but I'd need to investigate that further...

new forum message Clearing fields

2009-06-02T12:48:47+00:00

I've put up a fix for this. Use "//" for a field to blank it out. Doesn't work for authors/editors (yet) nor title.

I need to explain why this apparent bodge is necessary:

When we pull data from a journal it is marked as "trusted". All this "trusted" data is a single record in our database, shared by all users who have bookmarked that article. When you edit a field, you add an "untrusted" field to your own copy of that article. What you see is the merging of trusted+untrusted, with the latter taking priority.

Something like:

     TRUSTED: year:2009 month:01: day:05 issn:
     UNTRUSTED: day:26 issn:12345678
     => year:2009 month:01: day:26 issn:12345678

When you "delete" a field (i.e., blank the field), your "untrusted" value is deleted, leaving just the default "trusted" value.

So we need a way to say "ignore whatever the 'trusted' value says - use this 'blank' value instead". This is exactly what the "//" does.

I did try to GUIify this feature but it's such a relatively obscure requirement that adding a little, e.g., [x] next to a field was far too tempting for 99.8% of cases. And then we'd have to try to explain the above to the casual user.

new forum thread Posted-At field in bibtex export

2009-06-02T11:41:11+00:00

The last bit I need to straighten out for perfect CiteULike-BibDesk synchronization is the record creation field. The BibTeX specs are so poor that they don't have a field to represent the record creation date. CiteULike uses a custom field called "Posted-At", BibDesk has two separate fields called "Date-Modified" and "Date-Created" (ref here ). There might be relevant discussions on the microformats website as well.

I was wondering if you had any idea on how to normalize this field so that Bibdesk (or any other reference manager) will correctly interpret it. One possibility would be to allow users to manually editing a list of custom field mapping rules before exporting. Any thoughts?

new forum message Clearing fields

2009-06-02T08:40:45+00:00

I would like to ask to fix this bug, too.

new forum message Using the Bookmarklet: add date to screen and Post And Stay-Button

2009-06-02T05:09:20+00:00

Hi,

I'm been thinking about the problem of the bookmarklet not being able to pull out a citation from pubmed when my search pulls up the only article I'm looking for. (Since, I've encountered this a lot. Then I have to refine my search to be more ambiguous so I can select the article I want. Too much wasted brain power.) Is there any way the bookmarklet can pull out the PMID-from that article which is unique and found on the bottom of the page and then from the PMID get the rest of the citation. Or at least a temporary work-around, perhaps there could be a field to where I could copy and paste that PMID, and then citeUlike could pull up the rest of the citation. I don't think that work-around should be too hard??

new forum message Clearing fields

2009-06-01T20:32:54+00:00

This bug still seems to exist - any idea when it will be fixed?

new forum message Flag items

2009-06-01T15:42:02+00:00

Ah, that would be it then :-) I like [Share] too!

new forum message Flag items

2009-06-01T15:37:05+00:00

[Share]

I second that suggestion - much more meaningful.

new forum message Flag items

2009-06-01T15:19:44+00:00

count up 6 messages :-)

(Don't worry about it - if I was that worried I would've deleted your message)

new forum message Flag items

2009-06-01T14:12:58+00:00

I wasn't aware that I had told anyone publicly about this - dartar, how did you find out?

new forum message Flag items

2009-06-01T13:49:48+00:00

[Share]

Good. (Hardly matters, but a '%' at the start on the line does the magic-quote)

Can you please confirm if the for:username tag is working? Has this been announced/documented at all?

Grrr. I'll have words with AJCann. It's a test feature - he wasn't supposed to tell anyone. Don't rely on it (some of my colleagues want to do it a slightly different way).

new forum message Flag items

2009-06-01T13:27:30+00:00

> PLEASE PLEASE give us a better name

[Share]

> [Notify] doesn't allow a custom message

I wouldn't care about custom messages. Can you please confirm if the for:username tag is working? Has this been announced/documented at all?

new forum message Flag items

2009-06-01T13:14:38+00:00

You will have noticed that [Notify] doesn't allow a custom message. I'm open to persuasion on this, but I'm worried about annoying people, esp. within groups.

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-06-01T13:05:45+00:00

Let us know the URL. (By email support09@... if you prefer not to post it here.)

new forum message show all items with a certain tag dynamically

2009-06-01T13:04:14+00:00

No, it depends on how the articles were added. (You may by now have seen an email I sent to AJC explaining all this in tedious detail). There are no cut-off dates and you should see any newly tagged articles immediately.

Basically, if you added the articles by either typing in the metadata by hand, or RIS/BibTeX upload, then they're considered untrustworthy (potential spam) and therefore not visible by "to the world". In other words, /tag/xxxx only shows articles that CiteULike has directly sourced from publishers' websites.

new forum message Bulk move from library to Group

2009-06-01T12:57:53+00:00

Did you try any of the options in the What about duplicates? section of the import page. This isn't my area of expertise, but I think that's supposed to deal with duplicates.

new forum message Flag items

2009-06-01T12:55:01+00:00

PLEASE PLEASE give us a better name for it than [Notify] - it's rubbish.

Best suggestion gets 10 free citations.

new forum message show all items with a certain tag dynamically

2009-06-01T12:42:17+00:00

not sure if this is the right place to ask, but why does http://www.citeulike.org/user/jobadge/tag/uolpedr display 22 articles but http://www.citeulike.org/tag/uolpedr only display 2 articles? I am guessing there are limits on how recently the citations were posted. What are the cut-offs for this? I use delicious a lot to share items on a particular tag with colleagues, all of us add to the same tag and that way we make our own adhoc grouping of bookmarks. I was trying to use the tag 'uolpedr' here in the same way, but if someone new to citeulike wants to see the 'uolpedr' tags, they would only see 'recent' ones, not all of them- is that right?

Thanks Jo

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-06-01T12:36:23+00:00

Works like a charm, I am going to blog about this soon!

new forum message Bulk move from library to Group

2009-06-01T12:35:03+00:00

I'd like to do this as well - I tried a search in my own library then used export to RIS, then imported the RIS into the group, but there was a duplication (as one or more of the citations I'd selected from my library was already in the group) and the import failed. Perhaps searching by tag and export to RIS would work for you?

new forum message Flag items

2009-06-01T12:21:13+00:00

It's great to have such a prompt solution! [Notify] and the for:username tags do exactly what I need - even friedns need prompting occasionally (nudge, nudge :)

new forum message Using the Bookmarklet: add date to screen and Post And Stay-Button

2009-06-01T09:31:13+00:00

Well, at least I tried ;)

new forum message Tags of more than one words?

2009-05-31T21:09:39+00:00

It would be nice to allow spaces and not require work-arounds such as hyphens or underscores.

new forum message Using the Bookmarklet: add date to screen and Post And Stay-Button

2009-05-31T19:36:34+00:00

Great. Just the sort of feedback we like. We'll take it on-board and see what we can do.

CiteULike is otherwise a brilliant resource. I have no idea how I managed to write papers before.

Don't think flattery will get you bonus points :-)

new forum thread Using the Bookmarklet: add date to screen and Post And Stay-Button

2009-05-31T19:14:44+00:00

Hi there,

my most common use for citeulike is as follows:

1. go to article page
2. press post to citulike button
3. add my tags
4. press post button
5. navigate to citeulike
6. go to my library
7. go to most recent publication
8. check date of publication
9. change the bibtex key
10. copy bibtex and be happy

Steps 5-9 are a bit annoying. I could directly specify the bibtex key in step 3, but my keys usually have the layout authorYear, and at this step I usually don't have it. Sure, I could go back and search it.. but citeulike already has this information, why not directly showing it? Once I am happy, I want to directly copy the bibtex to my project, why am I redirected to the article page again?

Alternative scenario

1. go to article page
2. press post to citulike button
3. add my tags and bibtex key with authorYear
4. press post & stay button
5. copy bibtex and be happy

Its just a little bit inconvenient. CiteULike is otherwise a brilliant ressource. I have no idea how I managed to write papers before.

new forum message I want my right-click back (OSX, firefox)

2009-05-31T18:15:46+00:00

Removing someone's right click without asking them first is a bit of heinous crime from a UX point of view as far as I'm concerned. I appreciate the sentiment, and kudos to you folks for trying to push the boundaries, but it's got to made an optional extra not the default. Hell I don't even know how to shift it back in Chrome (edit - got the settings thing now), and to be honest I shouldn't have to - I use the right click all the time and suddenly I can't ...

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-31T13:42:27+00:00

Pretty much.

If you REALLY wanted to post crossref data directly, instead of using our normal plugins, it would be easy to arrange, but hardly convenient. For instance, I could add a special prefix for that instead of http://.... or doi:...., say xref:10.1223/13131334234.

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-31T13:28:39+00:00

Ah... the doi number must already be in citeulike's database for that to work and at the posting stage, it isn't?

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-31T13:22:37+00:00

That wouldn't work.

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-31T13:21:14+00:00

The hidden comment things are so funny

Hidden by me - it was a spammer trying to get google-linked.

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-31T13:05:31+00:00

Wow. In some cases that might mean vexing a maximum of 742 other authors :D

PS: The hidden comment things are so funny. They are as if people are having tangential and confidential side conversations in a real-life conversation.

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-31T12:59:14+00:00

Heh. I was just being lazy as usual and wanted to see if I could whine for one-click crossref data from the posting page. You underestimate the depth of the nadir of my laziness if you thought that was anything else. :)

The present arrangement is just fine if there are a subset of people who would want to review citations details in addition to the crossref data. Maybe a greasemonkey hack could bring the crossref data-fetch link to the post-page... ;)

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-31T12:38:11+00:00

Here's a case:

     http://www.citeulike.org/user/jobadge/article/4648908

copy this into you're library, then do the CrossRef update. CrossRef only has one author instead of 3. This case is reasonably common (but it's probably not their fault - they often only get sent the first author by the publishers).

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-31T06:51:23+00:00

Generally (we think) the non-CrossRef data is better. When you go to the Post and Review page, you have the option to try loading the crossref data (link at the top), with all the diffs highlighted.

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-31T00:25:58+00:00

Shouldn't -Post and Review- show the data fetched from crossref for cross-checking and review? What is the point of just reviewing entered details (which may or may not be accurate) if you don't have a second source of data such as crossref for reference?

I wish crossref did abstracts. So many abstracts from pubmed just don't import into the citation.

new forum message Flag items

2009-05-30T20:28:56+00:00

Isn't that what a stalker does? Besides, I blew all my hard cash in the ones I have now and credit is so hard to come by these days.

new forum message Flag items

2009-05-30T19:55:18+00:00

Of course, it they were really your friends, they would have subscribed to your RSS feed. Buy some new ones, amigo.

new forum message Flag items

2009-05-30T19:45:42+00:00

Very nifty! I often send emails to my contacts to tell them about new articles and this makes it substantially more efficient. Gracias! :)

new forum message Flag items

2009-05-30T19:04:53+00:00

Just added a feature that may do what you want... click on [Notify] on an article in your own library.

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-05-30T08:00:06+00:00

I don't have it. I've sent you an email - just reply to it...

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-05-30T02:49:04+00:00

Emailed on 25th May.

new forum message Web 1.0 navigation for text browsers etc

2009-05-30T00:29:23+00:00

Thanks very much. That's what I call Service!

new forum message Web 1.0 navigation for text browsers etc

2009-05-29T17:52:21+00:00

If your user-agent contains "w3m" or "lynx", you'll now see the old menus.

Hope that helps.

new forum message Web 1.0 navigation for text browsers etc

2009-05-29T17:49:00+00:00

That sounds like a good idea.

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-29T17:12:25+00:00

Ctrl-Enter it is, then.

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-29T16:59:42+00:00

Shortcuts are rather like rum for the Christmas Cake of RSI. A burnt cake is not only effectively camouflaged, it actually starts to taste better.

How about Ctrl-Enter/Alt-Enter/Shift-Enter for -Post and Review-? Are any of those feasible?

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-29T16:39:13+00:00

If you press <tab> twice, focus should go to the "Post & Review" button

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-29T16:31:02+00:00

The -Enter- key is associated with the post button. Does the -Post & Review- button have any keyboard shortcuts?

new forum message Post and Review on popup

2009-05-29T16:29:16+00:00

Thanks for that - yes it was a bug!

I'll shoot the coder. Me.

new forum message Web 1.0 navigation for text browsers etc

2009-05-29T16:08:38+00:00

Wouldn't a user-set preference be better than a user-agent hack?

You'll have to have the non-js menus anyway, so why not let anybody who likes access them?

new forum message Web 1.0 navigation for text browsers etc

2009-05-29T15:08:49+00:00

Yes, in emacs-w3m mine is Emacs-w3m/1.4.263 w3m/0.5.2

new forum thread Post and Review on popup

2009-05-29T14:17:56+00:00

Hi,

I quite like the new post and review option (and meta-data checking), however, on the popup-post bookmarklet, the 'post' button doesn't just post-and-shut-the-window, as it used to, but it brings up the meta data to review (as i'd expect the 'post and review' button to do). This feels like a bug?

Also, it would be nice if you could search your whole library against cross-ref to look for missing/alternate data - maybe off-line as a feature in syncUthink?!!! (-;

Cheers.

Simon

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-29T13:29:15+00:00

thanks guys, I am off until Monday and I don't have access to my Mac. I'll report back as soon as I can.

new forum message Web 1.0 navigation for text browsers etc

2009-05-29T12:54:13+00:00

Do those browsers have fixed User-Agent identifiers? Maybe I could hack something up.

new forum thread Web 1.0 navigation for text browsers etc

2009-05-29T12:20:44+00:00

The new menus (citeulike and myciteulike navigation links) don't work in emacs-w3m because they depend on js, and the same is true in w3m and Lynx. Can you provide a means of navigating the site that will work for text browsers without js? I have previously been able to use the site with emacs-w3m and like it that way. An unobtrusive link somewhere that leads to a html menu would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Jim

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-29T11:21:15+00:00

@dartar We'd appreciate it if you'd let us know if these changes have worked - we don't have BibDesk to check!

new forum message Flag items

2009-05-29T11:17:00+00:00

No, you can't do that at the moment. You can send a message to any of your "connections". I'm thinking about automating this in a similar way to the [Blog] link on the article page.

P.S. sorry you don't like our docs. (Yes, we've been boldly following your tweets.) Neither do we! They're definitely on our todo list. We made a start a while back with some howtos and we're inviting contributions...

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-29T10:54:34+00:00

...and they have now been demoronized:

     \u2018 -> '
     \u2019 -> '
     \u201A -> '
     \u201B -> '
     \u201C -> "
     \u201D -> "
     \u201E -> "
     \u201F -> "

new forum thread Flag items

2009-05-29T10:19:23+00:00

Apologies if this exists and I've missed it, but no-one I have asked seems to think this is possible. While I'm wary of giving users the ability to spam others, it would be very useful to be able to flag items in a similar way to for:user tags on delicious.

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-29T10:13:33+00:00

The quotes are (ho ho ho) 'smart' quotes ( details here ).

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-29T10:12:02+00:00

I've fixed the key problem. Somewhat stupidly, I'd only transliterated accented characters in the author name, not the title as well...

new forum message Bulk move from library to Group

2009-05-29T08:12:26+00:00

There isn't an easy way of doing this (at the moment - it's on the lengthy things-to-do list). If you email the support address with the tag and the group name, I'll try and do it for you.

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-29T08:07:14+00:00

(line 6626), key is rendered as : "Lawrence# 2000Context" (possibly because whitespace is not trimmed from the author field).

No, the year is wrong "# 2000". You should edit that record on citeulike. I'll look into that code to try to ensure it only ever uses 4 (or 2?) consecutive digits from that field.

there are several warnings because of unescaped quotes used in the abstract field.

There appear to be some "Microsoft" quotes (\'{e}gard jusqu’ici) we're not escaping properly. We'll look into it.

new forum message Missing abstract when importing from ACM Digital Library

2009-05-29T07:57:41+00:00

If I run our code on that URL, the abstract imports fine. But that article was originally imported in Sep. 2007 and, as mentioned here and elsewhere, you can only see what was imported then. There could be several reasons why the abstract wasn't imported, e.g.,

the abstract wasn't available then
our code wasn't able to extract at the time. The code for some journals is rather fragile as it has to literally look for certain combinations of HTML to infer metadata and so a slight change in the site's layout can throw a spanner in the works. Now that we've been given permission to use CrossRef more intensively we might be able to make things a bit more robust but a) CrossRef doesn't have perfect data either and b) they never provide abstracts.

new forum thread Bulk move from library to Group

2009-05-29T02:12:28+00:00

My apologies if this has been asked and answered elsewhere. I'd like to be able to move a set of citations with a common tag to one of my private groups. I've seen how to copy an individual citation to a group, but I haven't found any way to copy a group of citations.

new forum thread Missing abstract when importing from ACM Digital Library

2009-05-28T22:52:13+00:00

I tried to import the item at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1024694.1024697&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=37942561&CFTOKEN=77380133 using the CiteULike popup post tool. It created most of the entry fine, but omitted the abstract, which I had to add by hand: http://www.citeulike.org/user/johnwilkes/article/620814. (By the way - I like the new Post and revise button - thanks!)

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-28T22:32:27+00:00

I hadn't realized the form used GET parameters, thanks! I plugged the new URL in BibDesk and keys are now correctly generated. Unfortunately, the bibtex output has several syntax issues:

(line 6626), key is rendered as : "Lawrence# 2000Context" (possibly because whitespace is not trimmed from the author field). See: http://www.citeulike.org/user/dartar/article/4377

(line 235), special characters (é) are not replaced in the key. Special characters in the abstract (e.g. curly apostrophes) are incorrectly rendered. What encoding is sent with the HTTP headers? See: http://www.citeulike.org/user/dartar/article/4085286

there are several warnings because of unescaped quotes used in the abstract field.

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-28T13:51:44+00:00

If you look at the HTTP headers when you export through the normal web page, I think the following might do it for you:

     http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/dartar?do_username_prefix=0&key_type=4

Other options can be seen from the HTML source:

     <select name="do_username_prefix">
     <option value="0">Don't prefix keys</option>
     <option value="1">Prefix keys with username</option>
     </select>

     <select name="key_type">
     <option value="0">Prefer personal key; otherwise use numeric key</option>
     <option value="4">Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key</option>
     <option value="1">Prefer numeric keys</option>
     <option value="2">Only export articles with a personal key</option>
     <option value="3">Export both keys</option>
     </select>

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-28T13:18:31+00:00

I am using the fantastic "external file group" feature in BibDesk, which allows me to sync my local library with remote CiteULike references just by pointing BibDesk to the bibtex export URL: http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/dartar - Screenshot

As you can see I have to manually change the numeric key on each import (when I don't have a custom key already set in CiteULike, that is).

new forum message import wrong paper

2009-05-28T12:45:00+00:00

Thanks!

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-28T10:22:43+00:00

I connect to CiteULike from my reference manager and it sees numeric keys by default.

Can you tell me more about this? It might be better to provide an "&keystyle=AuthorYearTitle" option in a URL if that's what your app works.

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-28T09:24:58+00:00

good job, thanks! Now if this key scheme was also suggested when posting a new item to the library (not just on export), it would be really great!

Alternatively, is there a way to make the "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" option stick? I don't export bibtex manually but I connect to CiteULike from my reference manager and it sees numeric keys by default. Until a custom key scheme setting is implemented, I would love to be able to use the AuthorYearTitle default as opposed to the numeric key, would that be possible? Maybe you guys should consider a "Settings" page under myCiteULike to store this kind of user preferences?

new forum message Associate Blog Articles with Papers and vice-versa

2009-05-28T07:09:27+00:00

et al. is imported as et al

That's fixed now.

new forum message Associate Blog Articles with Papers and vice-versa

2009-05-28T03:05:31+00:00

I think this might be a tiny bug in the multiple article cite and blog feature: et al. is imported as et al when I choose the Vancouver Style citation.

And a request for a blogging extension: Could we please have an option to include multiple articles by a single author in a blog? (Maybe an additional link that leads to the page of authors in addition to the one that leads to the page of tags?)

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-27T19:32:45+00:00

I've put up a list of the substitutions here:

http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex_key_mapping

new forum message import wrong paper

2009-05-27T18:35:39+00:00

The DOI for this article (10.1109/FOCS.2004.48) had been associated with another article in our database at some point in the past. I've corrected this now, so the article should post properly. Thanks for reporting the problem.

new forum message import wrong paper

2009-05-27T18:20:20+00:00

It's REALLY ANNOYING.

A bit of background - we only ever import a paper once. When someone posts a link, we see it we've had it before and use that data instead. This has real benefits (nothing to do with speed) as it allows us to tie users together (see "Neighbours" feature).

But every now and again (this is only the second time I'm aware of) the publisher will CHANGE the article after initial publication. So you will see the "old" article.

[Edited: my colleague sorted it out while I was writing the above! See below.]

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-05-27T18:06:14+00:00

Put ALL the initials in the middle, including the "first".

     John B. Smith => =/John/JB/Smith/=

(There's a bug in certain citation styles because we can't deal properly with names like "B. John Smith")

new forum thread Script updated: Post Entrez PubMed Citations to CiteULike [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2478]

2009-05-27T16:48:52+00:00

Post Entrez PubMed Citations to CiteULike

This script automatically adds a "CiteULike" link to each search result and abstract in PubMed, which you can then click on to post any of these to CiteULike. This makes it very easy to add large numbers of citations very quickly to your library. It also makes it very easy to add to your library the set of articles referenced by the paper you're interested in and the articles that reference it as well.

NCBI changed their search results so that only the first result had the link inserted. This has now been fixed and the script is working properly again. Please update your version.

Thank you

new forum thread import wrong paper

2009-05-27T15:27:48+00:00

When I try to upload the paper at the following address http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1032645.1033210&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=36609805&CFTOKEN=57663195 citeulike imports a different paper (i.e."Discovering large dense subgraphs in massive graphs"). Why?

Thanks, Francesco

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-05-27T14:47:07+00:00

The HowTo says the name of the author can be formatted as: =/<firstname>/<initials>/<lastnames>/=

Sorry for the confusion but where do we input middle names?

new forum message Update via Crossref

2009-05-27T14:11:43+00:00

Can I be confident that the metadata from Crossref are correct?

If Crossref data is indeed quite superior to any of the other sources

CrossRef get their metadata from the publishers. In theory, CrossRef data should be better than that on the publishers site, if only because it's in a standard format. In practise the situation is a lot more complicated. Sometimes the publishers will send bad data to CrossRef. Sometimes late. Some publishers are luddites and still don't get the whole interweb thing and won't put sufficient resources into it. etc. etc.

Actually, we've only recently been given permission to use CrossRef in a batch or heavy duty way, so we're looking at ways to use CrossRef data to augment the publisher's data. One problem is that each lookup slows things down, so an import (BibTeX, say) of 1000 records will takes AGES. Perhaps we can make the upload asynchronous but one of the advantages of the net is that errors are immediate so we'd then have to find a way to alert the user if a particular batch/record failed. Yuck.

new forum thread Update via Crossref

2009-05-27T13:53:41+00:00

I just fixed a bunch of my articles that didn't have publication years, page numbers or other random details. A big thumbs-up to this feature!

Can I be confident that the metadata from Crossref are correct? Do they have some efficient checking process within Crossref? Where do they get their metadata from? I am asking because one of the articles I updated has several collaborating authors but the crossref update scratches out all the authors except the first one.

If Crossref data is dependable, then an option to update entire libraries (or sets of tags) via crossref might be even more useful. Or Citeulike could give users an option to import metadata from crossref instead of the source while posting the article.

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-27T13:35:22+00:00

I've added code to "translate" (most) European (Roman alphabet, i.e. not Greek) accented characters in author names into non-accented, BibTeX-safe equivalents. This translation will only work if the author names are in UTF-8. Of course, that's the start of another set of painful discussions...

new forum message I want my right-click back (OSX, firefox)

2009-05-26T23:51:39+00:00

OK, I found the setting to change it to Ctrl-right-Click from the settings page.. thanks !!

new forum thread I want my right-click back (OSX, firefox)

2009-05-26T23:09:18+00:00

Please give me my right mouse button back ... I really need it on CiteULike

new forum message Journals > Browse Current Issues > Energy Policy out of date

2009-05-26T13:10:34+00:00

Ah, that's fine then, it's all under control. Good stuff, no need to prioritise, it will all come in good time.

And good luck with getting the two-way sync going with Mendeley: I can see how they benefit from having the current one-way sync from you to them, but it will benefit us users a lot more when it works the other way too.

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-05-26T12:57:27+00:00

I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have deleted a hyphen. It's more likely that it was wrong when we initially imported the article but has since been corrected at AIP. This sort of thing happens quite a lot.

When you post an article, you don't get your "own copy" but a reference to the first time it was imported (by someone else, or maybe via a RSS feed).

We're looking at ways to "update" articles with more recent metadata. One of these ways should be available really soon, possibly this week.

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-05-26T12:03:14+00:00

It's even simpler, I just have to edit the author name from "Jean Yves Dauvignac" to "Jean-Yves Dauvignac" and the initials (J.-Y.) appear correctly.

Thank's for the fast response.

new forum message Journals > Browse Current Issues > Energy Policy out of date

2009-05-26T11:29:38+00:00

I'm adding 50 per day. So about 1 month from when I started ca. 17th May. If there's any you particularly want, I can bump them up the queue. Just give me the "els-....." code.

new forum message Journals > Browse Current Issues > Energy Policy out of date

2009-05-26T10:34:52+00:00

There are still quite a few not updated yet - http://www.citeulike.org/journals/scienced - is it going at the pace you'd expect, or has it stalled?

new forum message Reading of notes. The new menu system.

2009-05-25T12:11:20+00:00

You can get some of the old menu items back on the menu bar by applying this greasemonkey script. In addition, you can use the right-click context menu to insert some of your most accessed menu items. Having everything available on right-clicking is better than even the tabs. :)

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-05-25T10:21:11+00:00

I appreciate how annoying this is... But it's relatively rare and you can always fix it by hand

In your case this would be

     =/Jean-Yves/J/Dauvignac/=

new forum message [COMPLETED] CiteULike mangles author names.

2009-05-25T09:55:30+00:00

It seems that there is a more general problem with hyphenated names, not only related with bibtex import.

For example, when adding this article to my library through the "Post to CiteULike" button, http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=APCPCS001106000001000204000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes the author "Jean-Yves Dauvignac" becomes "Dauvignac, Jean Yves" (the hyphen is lost) and, consequently, the "Yves" is considered as a middle name, giving "Jean Y. Dauvignac" which is wrong.

Concerning Bibtex, hyphenated names *need not* be put between braces, see point 5 here, for example: http://newton.ex.ac.uk/tex/pack/bibtex/btxdoc/node3.html

For me this bug with hyphenated names is the only thing that keeps me from switching to CiteULike!

new forum thread Reading of notes. The new menu system.

2009-05-25T09:35:39+00:00

I have two comments:

1.) when I make a comment to an article, in the library I see this little icon that I added a note. but to read the note, I need to click the icon which loads a new page for this article. therefore: it would be very cool if I could just see the text of the note, when hovering over the "speech bubble" icon. in general, the amount of clicks should be reduced as much as possible.

2.) the new menu system. I find it horrible and very difficult to navigate, I simply can't get used to it. the old multi-tabbed layout was much more logical and STRUCTURED. now, there is zero structure. I assume that there are citeulike - users who complained about the old system, and as the admins of citeulike now have put work into creating the new system, there is little chance of going back. nevertheless, it would be great if we could go back to the more structured, logical system.

I think these two points would improve citeulike greatly, and give us back the old layout and functionality, respectively. otherwise, I like citulike and it is one of the most important tools for my research.

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-24T19:24:55+00:00

Translating special characters (not just umlaut letters) is the most common way to extract names for use with keys indeed. Otherwise, configurable bibtex key generation has already been requested here . (sorry for the spam guys, if there was a ticket-like system for feature requests like Trac it would be much easier to refer to already reported issues *hint*).

new forum message Bibtex export problem with "Prefer personal key; otherwise use AuthorYearTitle key" when the year is "in press".

2009-05-23T22:43:56+00:00

An automatic key generated by the "AuthorYearTitle" (same as above) is not good for latex if the author has a name like Byström: the letter "ö" causes error in latex.

A user can bypass this by defining a personal bibtex key (e.g. bystrom).

A possible fix would include translating the umlaut characters to [a-zA-Z].

new forum message Bookmarklet Vs. Embedded Citation Links

2009-05-23T08:16:37+00:00

The URLs are different:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/05/15/0901329106.abstract

vs.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/long/0901329106v1

The HighWire plugin can only deal with the latter at present. It's a bug.

new forum thread Bookmarklet Vs. Embedded Citation Links

2009-05-22T22:16:41+00:00

When I tried to post this article using the bookmarklet, I got this error:

    I couldn't post the page you were looking at to the site because:

    * (1) This (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/05/15/0901329106.abstract) does not appear to be a Highwire Press article. Try posting the article from the abstract page.

    If this doesn't make sense, you need more help, or just can't see the point of all this, then you might like to read the FAQ page All about the Bookmarklet.

    The page you submitted was: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/05/15/0901329106.abstract

However, when I used the citeulike link embedded under "Social Bookmarking" at the PNAS site, I was able to post it successfully.

Why can't the bookmarklet pick this up?

Also, shouldn't the new search capability be kicking in once the bookmarklet fails?

new forum thread History of the citeulike "rating" system

2009-05-22T09:08:16+00:00

Now it makes sense: http://citeulike.livejournal.com/6890.html

new forum message Privacy settings

2009-05-21T15:46:16+00:00

If you use firefox, here is a greasemonkey script that automatically ticks those "Privacy" and the PDF sharing checkboxes for you when you post an article.

----------

Steps for installing the script in Firefox:

1. Install greasemonkey from here
2. Once installed greasemonkey should show up as a small smiling monkey on the bottom right-hand corner of your browser.
3. Click the install button on this page. to install the script.

new forum message Privacy settings

2009-05-21T15:37:42+00:00

Sorry, slightly misleading. You can share PDF's in a private group, which is what you were referring to, I think. Same answer; there isn't, but should be.

new forum message Privacy settings

2009-05-21T13:29:11+00:00

There is no way to set your posting privacy as a saved preference at the moment, there probably should be. The PDF's are not shared; you're the only person who can download your PDFs (even if the post is public).

new forum thread Privacy settings

2009-05-21T12:35:26+00:00

Is there any way to set my 'preferences' so my posts are always private and the boxes about not letting others see my posting or share my PDF are checked rather than unchecked? If not, why not?

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-21T12:25:48+00:00

I can see that being really useful. Which database are you using for the searches?

PS: Schizotypy? Willy Wonka was pure evil.

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-21T07:22:55+00:00

Got it. Thank you for the detailed explanation!

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-21T06:51:44+00:00

The ! negates the statement. w.clexpand toggles visibility between visible and hidden.

Tags are shown by default, so we only toggle visibility of tags if the user wants them hidden (!showTagsOnPostScreen = true). (note the exclamation mark!)

Abstracts are hidden by default, so we only toggle visibility of abstracts if the user wants them shown (showAbstractonPostScreen = true).

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-21T06:18:44+00:00

Geez. I think I finally get it. The script is perfect just as it is. Terribly sorry about all the inanity above!

If I change the "true" values for any of the flags in this section:

     var showTagsOnPostScreen = true, // CHANGE THIS true TO false IF YOU LIKE
         showAbstractOnPostScreen = true, // CHANGE THIS true TO false IF YOU LIKE
         showMoreMenu = true, // CHANGE THIS true TO false IF YOU LIKE

I can eliminate either tags or abstracts or both from the final page that loads.

If I add or delete an exclamation mark in the following section:

        // hide tags by default: comment out the next line to leave them expanded by default
        if (!showTagsOnPostScreen) { w.clexpand("yt"); }

        // show the abstract by default: comment out the next line to leave it hidden by default
        if (showAbstractOnPostScreen) { w.clexpand("abstract"); }

the script doesn't function as expected.

So... why is there an exclamation point before showTagsOnPostScreen and not before showAbstractonPostScreen? If thegoose was trying to explain, the explanation totally whizzed over my head...

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-20T22:02:41+00:00

The flag for tags is showTagsOnPostScreen - so if that's true, you should see tags when the post screen appears; but if it's false, tags should be hidden when the post screen appears. Is that what you're seeing?

Ok, I've merged a "my-copy remover" (inspired by mrsmond's work) into my script - http://gist.github.com/67945 - no customisations needed, it picks up your username automatically from the page itself.

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-20T20:56:33+00:00

The big secret's out

new forum message Sorting already read papers

2009-05-20T18:34:07+00:00

Thanks!

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-05-20T18:23:46+00:00

Just tell me the author's surname... or, email to the new support emial address

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-05-20T17:55:45+00:00

They are. Can one email?

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-20T16:30:35+00:00

!!!!

new forum message Authors listing oddity

2009-05-20T15:49:10+00:00

Can you post links (I know the articles are probably private, but I'll be able to see them)?

new forum thread Authors listing oddity

2009-05-20T15:34:55+00:00

I've an author with about 15 entries with an Italian "di" surname prefix (although I'm not sure that is relevant). Clicking the listing of his surname in my Authors page only brings up a iist of 3 recent entries. Clicking his name on one of his other entries in Library view only brings up the others. So there are two lists for his name, but only one visible in Authors. Both lists describes their page as being for his surname (with prefix), then colon, then initial. This isn't a question of older-v-more recent though; one entry in the older list is a recent entry. Looking at the RIS and Bibtext records seems to provide no clue to this distinction. Re-editing the entries makes no difference. Somehow two lists seem to have been created and the newer one hides the older, although new entries can still end up on the older one. So how do I get these two lists amalgamated?

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-20T13:22:32+00:00

NOT a clue.

or "NOT (a clue)"

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-20T12:17:49+00:00

Ah - I found what the problem was. I had the earlier version of your script installed in addition to your new combined script. After removing the old script, the new script works just as expected without the exclamation mark. However, the collapse tags portion of the script doesn't collapse tags with the exclamation mark! It works fine without it. :)

Just as a learning point, what is the exclamation mark for, anyway?

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-20T10:04:33+00:00

weird. Without the greasemonkey script, does the abstract appear by default (click on the greasemonkey face in the status bar to disable it, then reload the page)? And with the script, and showAbstractOnPostScreen set to false?

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-20T06:14:12+00:00

Oh, thanks for saying that. Now it sounds like its MY Macs that are different...

OK, I found the problem with the myciteulike menu. Its slow (on Safari) to drop just by mouseover, and sometimes closes again instantly, so I clicked. You've written it for an onclick on the myciteulike button to (re)load the page, which instantly makes the drop-down menu items inoperative. There's no such facility on the other button. Could you take away that unhandy feature, and I'll be more patient for the menu to drop. Please.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-19T22:39:20+00:00

Don't apologise for using a Mac - I use one, and camster does too, so - in theory - everything gets tested thoroughly in Safari and Firefox on the Mac.

new forum message Sorting already read papers

2009-05-19T22:35:53+00:00

Annoyingly, you're correct and I'm not. Well, you were correct, but now that I've fixed the bug...

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-19T21:13:18+00:00

Unrelated: saw you spam-buries-you message. Consider to use greylisting and the problem is almost gone, e.g. http://www.howtoforge.com/greylisting_postfix_postgrey

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-19T20:51:42+00:00

great answer, thank you!

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-19T20:35:16+00:00

Ah, yes. Well that's confusing. I assumed it meant the opposite, but it explains why 95% of my library was invisible. Thanks.

new forum message Sorting already read papers

2009-05-19T20:31:21+00:00

But that hack doesn't show already read papers... It starts with the papers that are labelled with two stars.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-19T20:25:43+00:00

It reads: "Gi-Sci's citeulike" or "Specific User's citeulike" if you are logged out or on someone else's library. Maybe the cookie in your Mozilla browser didn't register that you were logged in?

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-19T20:19:45+00:00

So now I come to find that whilst in Mozilla browsers "myciteulike" now reads "Gi-Sci's citeulike", it has not changed in Safari, but in Safari (my browser of choice) none of the menu items in the "myciteulike" drop down now do anything but reload my library. The "citeulike" drop down items still work though. That's a lot of lost funtionality. You aren't trying to emulate Ebay are you? Just kidding... Sorry to be a nuisance, using Macs and weird browsers and all.

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-19T18:05:55+00:00

The abstract doesn't turn up without the exclamation point, even when it is set to true. That's how I spotted that it was missing. I am using Firefox 3.0.10

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-19T16:54:06+00:00

Yum. Tasty ivory tower.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-19T15:34:00+00:00

If you click on "settings" on that menu (or "Context Menu" in "MyCiteULike") there's the option to have that menu appear with ctrl-right-click instead (or disable it conpletely).

Having said that, in FF you can open a new tab with the middle mouse button (if you have one!)

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-19T14:57:46+00:00

hi there, I'm using firefox on linux. I have noticed that after the last changes I get an annoying grey menu whenever I right-click on a paper title in my library. This is a problem, because I actually would like to open the link into a new tab. Before the changes, I used to get the usual behaviour for any right-click on links in firefox: a menu with "open in new window", "open in new tab", etc... Can you fix that please?

new forum message Sorting already read papers

2009-05-19T06:57:22+00:00

You can 'hack' it like this:

http://www.citeulike.org/user/melvineloy/order/to_read,asc

That will show you all your articles, but the unread ones will be at the top of the list. Not perfect, but maybe good enough?

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-19T06:43:35+00:00

Will do. But you can always add things as a "custom item":

     "HowTo" -> "/howto"

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-19T06:40:03+00:00

Search Engine add-on:

     http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=citeulike

OpenSearch plugin - supported by Firefox 2+, Internet Explorer 7+, etc.

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-18T23:18:57+00:00

It seems to work ok here: that is, when showAbstractOnPostScreen is set to true (line 10), it does show the abstract on the post screen. And when it's false, it doesn't. Does it work like that for you?

new forum message Sorting feeds

2009-05-18T21:47:45+00:00

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T21:20:26+00:00

... actually I meant (requested) to add to "myciteulike" list

new forum thread Sorting already read papers

2009-05-18T21:17:09+00:00

Is there a way to view all articles that have been marked as read? Essentially this would be the opposite of "order/to-read"... Thanks for any help!

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T21:16:59+00:00

Please add "HowTo" link http://www.citeulike.org/howto to the new context menus. Thanks

new forum message items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-18T21:15:50+00:00

Strange, I have been using FF2 for several months. This misbehaviour I notice since citeulike introduced the new menu.

I won't "upgrade" to FF3, I tried it and discovered several problems with displaying css-elements.

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T21:13:23+00:00

Stay indoors tomorrow. I'll be wandering around Oxford...

Thanks. Now I can't get this image out of my head.

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T20:31:24+00:00

As long as I can please you, Will, I'm happy.

Stay indoors tomorrow. I'll be wandering around Oxford...

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T20:29:53+00:00

Yay! Like it. See you can please everyone :)

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T20:01:35+00:00

Nah nah! Not telling!

(Don't get too excited, though - not that wonderful)

Give you a clue. It's search related...

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T19:36:07+00:00

No-ones discovered the other new "Easter Egg" yet, though (not related to the menus).

Come on! You can't throw around teasers like that!!! Where is it?? :s

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T19:17:57+00:00

Will do - but wanted to leave the item on "spam" up for a while first. Also gives us a chance for a little feedback here and to make a few tweaks.

No-ones discovered the other new "Easter Egg" yet, though (not related to the menus).

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T19:13:35+00:00

Cool! I think you should put all of this on the "News".

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-18T19:12:28+00:00

Actually, that was the starting point for the design. Lots of users commented about not being able to find options among the various menus so we jumped on the "mega menu" bandwagon.

And as mentioned above , there's actually less space avaiable than you'd think, unless we were to remove the group names from the menu bar. (Actually, we are thinking about that and have a title below instead.)

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T19:04:43+00:00

Good news all round.

I've changed the functionality so that ctrl-rightclick brings up the normal browser menu.

BUT, there's a settings option to reverse the behaviour, i.e., right-click goes back to normal browser behaviour and ctrl-right-click brings up the new menu.

Everyone happy?

I've removed the "suspend" but I'll put it back (as a settings option) if there's demand. Pretty redundant now though, I think.

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T18:24:59+00:00

The "suspend" option is useful. I have been using the context-menus for some hours now and I think the right-click navigation is far more efficient and time-saving than scroll to the menubar/bookmarks->locate->hover->click navigation.

The new context menus are a slight trade-off. It's either more time spent accessing citeulike sections or more time spent on regular right-click actions. However, it appears to me that time-savings with citeulike navigation are much bigger than regular-right-click losses.

I have been able to customize the menus to the areas and sites I access the most. It's now functioning as an efficient citeulike-specific right-click bookmark list. Thumbs-up to the new menus!*

*PS: You should probably know that I am very easily impressed. Heh Heh. :)

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-18T17:52:01+00:00

The grey zone opening in the new menu is overcrowded. It is hard to find what you're looking for straight away. You need to read carefully through the whole frame. You should definitely split all the links into more categories and use more of that gray bar!

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T16:49:32+00:00

Lots of browsers open a new tab on middle-click.

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T16:39:51+00:00

Adding a vote to the "reduction of functionality" crowd. I like to right click to open links (particularly DOIs) in a new tab.

In any case, thanks for making it possible to turn this new "feature" off.

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T15:57:14+00:00

Not perfect, but I've added a "Suspend" option which turns off the menus for the current page. I'll see if I can work out how to add an option for ctrl-rightclick.

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-18T15:34:55+00:00

Thanks so much for your scripts. :)

PS: I think the latest script is missing an exclamation point

    (showAbstractOnPostScreen) --> (!showAbstractOnPostScreen)

new forum message Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T15:11:18+00:00

This is very cool idea. However, I use the right-click for a number of other options on firefox such as:

Search with (a number of databases)
Copy, Select-all
Clippings
Form Recovery
Ubiquity functions

The new context menu overrides these options. :( Maybe mouse-gestures or some special mouse-clicks might be better, as willwade suggests above?

PS: Can't reply to your original message either. There is a login link instead of a reply link.

new forum thread Re: New "context menus"

2009-05-18T12:32:20+00:00

Hey Goose - looking good.. 2 things though

1. I can't reply to your message titled "New "context menus"" - asks me to login - there is no reply option - not sure what that is all about

2. Can you integrate the standard "Copy URL" - and other standard right click options?? From a usability aspect the rather nifty menu that pops-up actually limits the standard user interface rather than extends it IMHO as its different from how a user expects it to work - my feeling is nobody will discover this unless pointed out.. hence missing a big chunk of "cool" functionality. How about instead of right clicking you do a timed left click - e.g. hold it down for a set period of time and it pops up - or control clicking - or even gestures??

new forum thread New "context menus"

2009-05-18T11:05:53+00:00

Try right-clicking on any page.

Cool, eh?

Please let us know what you think.

new forum message CiteULike Extensions and Enhancements Thread

2009-05-18T08:35:07+00:00

Great work, Zephyrus. May I suggest linking the three interface modifications that are in my name, to a single greasemonkey script - https://gist.github.com/67945/80081edb272e0afb0b9cce7e68c17929546ee490 - as this (the latest one) does all three jobs in one, and tidies up the code from the previous versions.

new forum message Journals > Browse Current Issues > Energy Policy out of date

2009-05-17T18:09:47+00:00

new forum message Journals > Browse Current Issues > Energy Policy out of date

2009-05-17T07:56:46+00:00

We have permission from ScienceDirect now. All those feeds will be updated in due course. Thanks for your patience (and help).

new forum message Uploaded pdf not visible for other group members

2009-05-17T06:56:46+00:00

If you send an email to suppport at citeulike dot org asking to have the privacy of your group changed, I will do it for you -- the members of the group will be unaffected.

new forum message Uploaded pdf not visible for other group members

2009-05-16T21:58:12+00:00

ok, thanks; that makes it clear for me but... I cann't find a way to change my dihag group into private in the admin page of my dihag group. If this is possible for me, how? if it's not possible for me, can you do it? or is there a possibility to create a new private group and import the members and library from the old one? I just motivated a group of gp's to start using citeulike; it will be difficult to keep them motivated when they have to start all over again.

TIA Willem

new forum message Private Vs. Hidden Vs. Closed Blog

2009-05-16T21:15:53+00:00

I thought commenting was handled by these options:

     Comments: Accept comments for this article ?
     If you check this box, then logged-in CiteULike users will be able to comment on this article.

     Anonymity: Can comments be posted anonymously ?
     If you check this box, then comments on your article can be made anonymously.

A closed article is also not publicly visible. What is the pink background for?

new forum message Private Vs. Hidden Vs. Closed Blog

2009-05-16T21:04:19+00:00

"Closed" just means that no further comments/replies can be added. I think the description on the blog page is wrong.

new forum thread Private Vs. Hidden Vs. Closed Blog

2009-05-16T20:50:49+00:00

What exactly is the difference between:

A private blog article
A hidden blog article
A closed blog article

As far as I can see, all of them are not publicly visible. The hidden and closed blogs have a pink background when I am logged in.

The short instructions in the blog posting window say that:

A private blog is only viewable by me.
When an article is hidden or closed, it cannot be edited or viewed by anyone other than me.

Does that mean that there are some instances where a private blog can be edited by others? How can that be if they can't even see the blog? What is the point of having both hidden and closed if they are both doing more or less the same thing? Am I missing something here?

new forum message Uploaded pdf not visible for other group members

2009-05-16T19:50:55+00:00

No, a private group means something different and can't be changed (by you) after it's created. When you create a new group at

     http://www.citeulike.org/groupcreate

there's the "Privacy" option (as distinct from "Joining"). Changing privacy to private is probably OK, but it's harder the other way around for, er, privacy reasons.

new forum message Uploaded pdf not visible for other group members

2009-05-16T19:16:52+00:00

Thank you Zephyrus and thegoose. willemtest is my alterego for testing. In fact, I also thought in this direction. I started the group private ( at least when my consideration is right that a private group means that members must apply and have to be approved for membership). For a certain period I made it possible for everyone to join ( = public?). Noticed the pdf problem; changed to private again ; re-uploaded the file but didn't notice a change. Does this make sense? Is there a workaround?

thanks

willem van stempvoort

new forum message items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-16T18:54:32+00:00

I've discovered what the problem is (FF2 on Linux at least)- a javascript "Security Error" stop some code from working. I tried a workaround, but it didn't work. We're looking at replacing the library in question in the near future.

Mind you, even Mozilla recommend against using FF2.

new forum message Author with four names shown incorrectly.

2009-05-16T18:45:48+00:00

Yes, sometimes our parsing code just gets it plain wrong. It's always worth looking at the raw data using [Edit] (as you have done) to fix anything obvious, but the generic fix is explained here:

     http://www.citeulike.org/howto?show=sec4-1

So in your case:

     =/Alberto/AL/Sangiovanni Vincentelli/=

new forum thread Author with four names shown incorrectly.

2009-05-16T18:18:48+00:00

In our group library, we have the following entry:

http://www.citeulike.org/group/7850/article/3905503

This paper has four authors:

    Roberto Passerone
    Luca de Alfaro
    Thomas A Henzinger
    Alberto L Sangiovanni Vincentelli

new forum message Uploaded pdf not visible for other group members

2009-05-16T16:43:46+00:00

Zephyrus is spot on with that - the group must be private. The process could be a bit clearer, though, perhaps by indicating which groups are private in the list.

If you get "stempvoort" to contact us to make the group private, we can do that. You'll need to re-upload any PDFs, though.

new forum message Uploaded pdf not visible for other group members

2009-05-16T15:23:54+00:00

Your group has to be a private group (not publically visible) for your PDFs to be available to all group members. I am not sure if there is a way to convert your public group into a private group. The private/public preference needs to be specified at the time of creating the group. Maybe the administrators of CUL can change the status of your group?

new forum thread Uploaded pdf not visible for other group members

2009-05-16T13:25:01+00:00

Hello Uploaded pdf not visible for other group members. I checked the “I’v the right” checkbox and posted the pdf also to the group Another groupmember finds the citation but not the pdf You will find the details in the screenprint

screenprint

TIA Willem

new forum message Lots of backslash characters added to bibtex output.

2009-05-16T12:45:50+00:00

You're probably right, but APS journals never seem to give the last page when using the `post to CiteULike' button. All those plus symbols were just irritating me so I did this to get rid of them and dump the URLs too, since I'm only interested in eprint numbers and DOIs.

new forum message Lots of backslash characters added to bibtex output.

2009-05-16T07:23:55+00:00

It also takes care of plus symbols being added to page numbers

I think the "+" sign is supposed to be there.

new forum message Lots of backslash characters added to bibtex output.

2009-05-15T23:07:20+00:00

I noticed the note->comment mixup too. Currently my script looks like:

#!/bin/bash

curl "http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/MarkEveritt" | sed -n '/^.*url.*=.*{.*}.*,/ !p' | tr -s '{}\' | sed -e 's/pages = {$.*$-.*--.*-.*},/pages = {\1},/' -e 's/title = {$.*$},/title = {{\1}},/' -e 's/pages = {$.*$+},/pages = {\1},/' -e 's/comment =/note =/' -e 's/\\\$/$/g' -e 's/$^.*title.*$\\_/\1_/' > bibliography.bib

It's a mess granted (it's evolved over the months), but it fixes some of these issues for me. It also takes care of plus symbols being added to page numbers, and just leaves the start page.

new forum message Lots of backslash characters added to bibtex output.

2009-05-15T13:20:11+00:00

Same problem here. Also, url-fields containing the tilde character, e.g.

http://www.math.ntnu.no/~jarlet

is changed into

http://www.math.ntnu.no/\~{}jarlet.

In addition, "note"-fields are changed into "comment"-fields. The following script fixes the problem for me:

#!/bin/bash

wget http://www.citeulike.org/bibtex/user/jarlet -O /tmp/temp.bib

sed \

-e "s/comment =/note =/" \

-e 's|\\\\|\\|g' \

-e 's|\\\$|\$|g' \

-e 's|\\~{}|~|' \

/tmp/temp.bib > $HOME/mytexinput/jarle.bib

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-15T10:41:04+00:00

HEY! That's actually pretty cool and looks great!!!

Thanks for all the java! :)

PS: All your greasemonkey scripts are being faithfully documented and linked here.

new forum message items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-15T10:36:33+00:00

That's a good solution. Thanks. :)

new forum message Lost all citations

2009-05-15T09:43:31+00:00

We have tried to recover the URL's from our weblogs. I have emailed them to you.

new forum message items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-15T09:29:03+00:00

You could bookmark this link:

http://www.citeulike.org/user/Zephyrus/tag/no-tag

new forum message items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-15T09:21:50+00:00

This issue is not solved. It is annoying, because having to type the tags may introduce errors. Will there be a solution?

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-15T07:47:30+00:00

If you use Firefox + Greasemonkey, you can use the latest version of my script to completely ruin the streamlined menu bar and clutter it up again with the useful stuff ;-) (Library / Unread / Search / Authors / Tags)

Script here: http://gist.github.com/67945

Instructions here: http://www.citeulike.org/groupforum/1062

And finally, go to "Manage User Scripts", and change the "Included pages" to "http://www.citeulike.org/*"

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-14T23:36:41+00:00

I can't say I'm a huge fan. I'll agree that the hovering is a bit finicky. And now, it takes longer to switch between different views of your library (author, tag, most recent) than before.

There's a lot of unused space on the grey bar - it would be nice to have the most commonly used features more easily available there (The different library views in particular).

new forum message Lost all citations

2009-05-14T21:54:57+00:00

Is there any way to get my citations back?

new forum message Lost all citations

2009-05-14T12:55:43+00:00

Thanks for the reassurance!

Really annoying that you have to deal with all this spam at all, thanks for your efforts.

new forum message Slightly larger posting window

2009-05-14T12:29:04+00:00

That's AWESOME. Thank You!!

new forum message Lost all citations

2009-05-14T12:08:57+00:00

You would notice because it would be your whole library. Without going into details, libraries like yours would never get flagged as spam.

new forum message Lost all citations

2009-05-14T10:44:58+00:00

This is a bit worrying, I don't think I've lost any citations myself, but how can I tell?

new forum message Lost all citations

2009-05-14T09:02:10+00:00

Chevan

Unfortunately you have fallen foul of an overzealous spam removal process. Your area of research is quite close to one of the main subjects spammers seem to favor and this has resulted in the deletion of your articles. Your account has now been marked as "definitely not a spammer". I sincerely apologize for this.

Kevin Emamy

new forum message Slightly larger posting window

2009-05-14T07:12:42+00:00

Hello! I'm paying attention! (well, almost. Kind of wandering in and out of focus, really)

Anyhooo, I've just edited the greasemonkey script to do this too. Same place as before - http://gist.github.com/67945

new forum message Slightly larger posting window

2009-05-14T03:18:13+00:00

Would someone (nudge, nudge) be kind enough to write a greasemonkey script to expand the "abstract" on default in the posting page? I have been trying to parse and understand your script but there is too much java jargon. :)

new forum message Forum search

2009-05-14T01:29:17+00:00

     +site:citeulike.org +"citeulike-discussion" <your query>

This is a very useful tip. It might be helpful to include this search string in the How-to for searching the forum.

new forum message format citations in chosen style under all views

2009-05-14T01:22:39+00:00

Thanks!

new forum message Please add a brief "HowTo change your password" in the HowTo-List under accounts etc

2009-05-14T00:53:28+00:00

How do I change my password?

Long Method:

Navigate to "myCiteULike" > Profile
Click on the [Edit] link next to the title "My profile".
Click on the [Change Password] link next to the title "Edit Your Profile".
Change your password on the "Change your password" page.

Really Short Method:

Navigate to http://www.citeulike.org/profile/your_username/password.
Change your password on the "Change your password" page.

If you have forgotten your current password, things are much more complicated.

new forum thread Lost all citations

2009-05-13T23:10:31+00:00

I added a number of citations and sources this morning. When I logged in this evening, they were all gone. Can someone help me understand why this happened?

new forum thread Please add a brief "HowTo change your password" in the HowTo-List under accounts etc

2009-05-13T22:49:29+00:00

I have spent 1/2 hour now trying to find out how to comply with this recommendation in the lost-password-mail. This would be really helpful. Thanks! Martin

new forum message Sorting by date of publication

2009-05-13T21:39:07+00:00

Do you think there is a chance that you might implement this sort?

new forum message RSS or pushmail for group activities (forum, message, blog)?

2009-05-13T21:21:23+00:00

Well. I think I found it. Firefox helped me. Using Firefox within the URL bar (the internet address)a RSS icon appears . This button indicates it possible to create a rss from the page. So simply copy the URL and paste it into your feedreader

new forum message Who's Watching?

2009-05-13T19:54:38+00:00

I think I could live with 1 anonymous spy. Thanks for the long, short and cryptic answers. :)

new forum message RSS or pushmail for group activities (forum, message, blog)?

2009-05-13T19:29:38+00:00

thanks for your quick response. This gives a nice rss for the articles posted. But it would be even nicer to get a rss for a forum/message/blog posting

is this also possible?

greetings

willem

new forum message RSS or pushmail for group activities (forum, message, blog)?

2009-05-13T19:19:29+00:00

If you look at a group's library page, like this one:

http://www.citeulike.org/group/8599

You should see the little RSS button (a dot and two quarter circles). Those link to an RSS feed for the library:

http://www.citeulike.org/rss/group/8599

Is that what you want?

new forum thread RSS or pushmail for group activities (forum, message, blog)?

2009-05-13T18:54:36+00:00

Hello, It would be very helpfull to get informed about new posts in one's groups. I found an old post suggesting there's a rss button at the bottum of the page but I couldn't find this button

TIA for the help

Willem

new forum message Who's Watching?

2009-05-13T18:48:42+00:00

As goose says, there's no way of seeing who's watching you at the moment.

It would be very straightforward to implement such a thing. I'm concerned about whether there are any privacy issues though. If people who have built watchlists have done so assuming that they are private, then exposing them would be a bad idea...

By the way, there is one other user watching you...

new forum message Who's Watching?

2009-05-13T18:08:30+00:00

Feeling paranoid?

Short answer: no.

Long answer: nooooooo.

new forum thread Who's Watching?

2009-05-13T17:21:31+00:00

Is there some way of knowing if your articles are being "watched" by other citeulikers?

new forum message bibtex keys: automatic generation?

2009-05-13T08:44:40+00:00

already requested here with a proposal of templates for bibtext key autogeneration.

new forum thread Display the journal title when adding a new article

2009-05-12T21:51:20+00:00

This is pretty trivial, but sometimes when I click on my browser bookmark to add a new article I forget the name of the journal that article is from. This is a problem because when I try to upload the pdf, I don't know if I should upload PhysRevA_76_061403.pdf or PhysRevLett_100_073902.pdf. Since citeUlike displays the title, authors, and abstract when adding an article, it might be nice if it also displayed the title of the journal and the year published.

Thanks,

Dan

new forum message bibtex keys: automatic generation?

2009-05-12T21:34:43+00:00

I often find myself in the situation of writing something in LaTeX, wanting to cite a reference, typing "\cite{", and then forgetting what cite-key I assigned to the paper that I have sitting right in front of me. Therefore, I would like some sort of way to quickly get the cite-key. I think that it would be very useful for there to be an option in the bibtex export so that you can export in some sort of standardized Author-Year-first_word_in_title format, that way I can just look at the stack of articles that I have on my desk and be able to quickly figure out the cite-key for each one.

Thanks, Dan

new forum message Please make a format for patents.

2009-05-12T19:48:24+00:00

I need this feature as well. @misc would be a good category, RIS even has the PAT type, apparently.

new forum message pdf re-upload

2009-05-12T18:51:34+00:00

Ah, well, that makes sense. It looks like so many of my PDF's followed a similar naming scheme that I didn't even notice. Anyway, thanks for the help you two.

new forum message Citation style "American Physical Society" or "RevTeX"

2009-05-12T18:40:00+00:00

RevTeX is bundled with TeX Live, as is the bibliography style `apsrev.bst'. I'd like to see this option added too. Hope that helps!

http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/revtex/apsrev.bst

new forum message Capital letters in the middle of a name are turned into lower-case

2009-05-12T17:15:05+00:00

Works great, thanks!

new forum message Capital letters in the middle of a name are turned into lower-case

2009-05-12T16:34:14+00:00

Try this trick:

     http://www.citeulike.org/howto?show=sec4-1

new forum thread Capital letters in the middle of a name are turned into lower-case

2009-05-12T16:02:20+00:00

The author's name Ying C MacNab becomes Ying C Macnab after updating details. ¿How can I force to keep the capital letter? Writing "Ying C MacNab" is not satisfactory, because it is regarded as a single string.

Thanks.

new forum message Citation style "American Physical Society" or "RevTeX"

2009-05-12T12:11:16+00:00

If you can point us at the relevant free-to-use BibTeX ".bst" files, then we can make theose styles available for you.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-12T11:36:01+00:00

I don't have anything against hovering as such -- it's the delay that sort of gets me. Basically I put my mouse over the button and since nothing happens instantly, I click, thinking that that would open the menu. And obviously the clicking doesn't have the desired effect. As someone noted below it might be the javascript-ness of it all...if you look at something like http://www.washingtonpost.com/ their menus are instant and indeed pretty slick.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-12T10:18:43+00:00

The menu does not work at all. It is complete gone now!! You should check your code.

new forum thread Citation style "American Physical Society" or "RevTeX"

2009-05-12T08:58:19+00:00

Hi,

how about offering the citation style "American Physical Society" or "RevTeX" as well in the paper page drop down menu?

Would be nice for us physicists... :)

Cheers, A

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T19:59:27+00:00

the delay is because the menus are javascript-driven. You guys may want to give a try to pure CSS menus or if you want to stick to JS maybe try something snappier?

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T19:34:47+00:00

Yes, unfortunately people tend to have "hover to open" instead of "click to open" recently. So, if I move the mouse around the page, some things are happening I did not ask for. I prefer actions that start to do something just when I call them by clicking or some other explicit action. I don't like that a webpage tries to guess what I might like to see -- chances that I would like to see something else are very high. Maybe it's a misleading comparison: I don't expect that the car I am driving is turning to the right every time I look to the right side.

new forum message MathSciNet posting does not work

2009-05-11T19:26:30+00:00

Any news on this? I wanted to try this out, but without MathSciNet it's pretty crippled for me.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T18:34:33+00:00

Like mahlow I find the positioning of mouse difficult so don't like hover menus much. I can up the text size enough to make the submenu items large enough targets to hit but its still uncomfortable because of two dimensional moving down and right which (for right handed mouse users) forces crunching of the wrist or moving the whole arm to accomodate.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T18:24:13+00:00

OK, had a good browse around FF and discovered that several sites had images blocked - including citeulike! Oops. Can see everything now :D I have no idea how that got there or why. Apologies for anyone who scratched heads on this one.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T18:20:27+00:00

Would you prefer "click to open" instead of "hover to open"? On other words, more like application windows. For some reason, "hover to open" seems to be much more common with in web sites.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T18:13:14+00:00

Something in your message is hinting what the problem may be...

Lucy; are you using an adblocker? If not a addin/plugin for firefox have you tweaked your hosts file? I note on that on one of my mac's using a similar setup - with a tweaked hosts file - citeulike is one of the only sites to suffer detrimentally. I lose the ads but I also lose allsorts of stuff like the citation. In fact all I see is the titles of papers - however I do still see the menu.

So perhaps this maybe just one part of the story?

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T17:23:29+00:00

lucybuykx, you definitely have an issue with your browser. FF3+Mac OS 10.5.6 here, everything looks fine (no major discrepancy between FF and Safari). Posting a screenshot may help people understand what your problem is.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T16:50:53+00:00

So, I'm an "impatient kinda guy", and the 0.1 seconds or so between the moment I hover my mouse over the button and the moment the menu actually pops bugs me a little. That, and the the fact that I very often used to hit the "Authors" link when looking for a paper, as I know that's my best chance of getting to it. Now that link is inside the menu...

That said, different people obviously have different preferences (i.e. not everyone is as impatient as me, and not everyone searches via author), so it'll always be a trade-off. I'm all up for the streamlining!

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T16:01:42+00:00

I would also use the adjective "finicky" -- after looking it up in the dictionary :)

You have to position your mouse very carefully and than click quickly and hope you clicked the link you were looking for. I don't think it is a good idea to have columns of lists of links in a pull-down. It looks overcrowded. And I don't understand the logic behind the columns. Do the links listed in one column have something in common? If so, what?

new forum message Lots of backslash characters added to bibtex output.

2009-05-11T15:50:25+00:00

This is still an issue for me. At the moment it's all being held together on my end with a sed script! Is nobody else having this problem?

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T15:38:22+00:00

I posted a few weeks (months?) ago that I could not see the little icons that indicate pdf and comments on my library. Have been away from CiteUlike for some time and come back today to discover the changed menu. Only ... well on my FireFox 3, OS X Leopard there is no menu. I see at the top "Logged in as lucybuykx logout faq" and the search box. Then the rest of the page is delightful white and my library listing is listed inside the box. There is nothing else on the screen. No menu, no adverts. I do get the tag cloud though.

If I switch the stylesheet off I can see the menu but of course that makes the rest of it look a bit naff.

I got to see the new menu from a Windows account also using FF3. Sorry to be negative but I do not like hovering and then moving mouse and clicking. Its very fiddly and difficult to hit such small text links.

Will you please provide a graceful degradation for non or reluctanct mouse users

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T15:25:40+00:00

That's a long name for a group. Wasn't thinking about groups when I posted. :/

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T15:18:13+00:00

I had already suggested that myself. We've decided to make changes slowly, so as not to scare people off with a big hit of changes.

There's also the problem of smaller screens - we try to make sure everything works in windows as narrow as 900px. For example, if you select this group:

     http://www.citeulike.org/groupfunc/10389/home

things are getting pretty wide already.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T15:13:10+00:00

The pull-down behavior is a bit finicky, as has always been the case (on Firefox 3.0.10 Mac Leopard)

Can you give us some more detail, please? Are they "slow"?

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T15:12:27+00:00

Perhaps they could be integrated into the very top of the page, creating 4 horizontal zones: logo, sponsor, navigation (including search) and login.

I second that suggestion. Integrating the panel that has:

     Logged in as Zephyrus  | Log Out | FAQ [?]  Search

with the menu bar would make the interface cleaner.

The menu button names are not entirely intuitive. The whole service is "CiteULike" so what is a user to think lies within the "CiteULike" button? "MyCiteULike" is also kind of cutesy and Microsoft-like; "Library" might be more straightforward.

Good points. However, the "myciteulike" button is not entirely about the user's library. It has all the user's personalized content on citeulike.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-11T14:39:33+00:00

The new menu is an improvement, and the organization of links inside each menu pull-down is pretty logical. Three things though:

- There seems little point to having an entire, long menu bar if there are only two buttons. Perhaps they could be integrated into the very top of the page, creating 4 horizontal zones: logo, sponsor, navigation (including search) and login.

- The menu button names are not entirely intuitive. The whole service is "CiteULike" so what is a user to think lies within the "CiteULike" button? "MyCiteULike" is also kind of cutesy and Microsoft-like; "Library" might be more straightforward.

- The pull-down behavior is a bit finicky, as has always been the case (on Firefox 3.0.10 Mac Leopard)

Thanks for looking for ways to improve this very useful service.

new forum message Rename "Recent" to "Library" (New Menu Feedback)

2009-05-11T14:15:29+00:00

Happy now?

Thank you!

new forum message Importing RIS seems to have stopped working

2009-05-11T12:32:58+00:00

David's RIS file had some strange characters at the beginning. I changed the import so that it should throw junk away. If you're convinced your RIS file is OK, and the import still isn't working, please email the RIS file to support at citeulike dot org, and I'll fix the problem.

new forum message Importing RIS seems to have stopped working

2009-05-11T12:06:14+00:00

Same problem here! Did you find out what caused the error?

new forum message Rename "Recent" to "Library" (New Menu Feedback)

2009-05-11T11:16:58+00:00

Happy now?

new forum thread Blog posts stil stay open

2009-05-11T08:34:35+00:00

... thx for looking into the problem. Now the blog posts are no longer editable by other group-members ;-)

But they are still "open". You have to click the title or the 'Read This Article' link to be able to see comments like it is supposed.

But thanks alot for looking into the problem - great service.

Btw,.. I salute you for the new 'MyCiteULike'. I personally liked the old buttons... but I accept the need for changes ;-)

Sincerely J.Broesby

new forum message Rename "Recent" to "Library" (New Menu Feedback)

2009-05-11T01:38:00+00:00

Okay - how about this argument? "Recent" suggests that there ought to be a "Dated" link with older stuff. But there isn't any "Dated" section so why should there be a "Recent" link?

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-10T18:48:59+00:00

I like it! It is neat and uncluttered. All those tabs were a bit too much.

new forum message Rename "Recent" to "Library" (New Menu Feedback)

2009-05-10T18:39:22+00:00

So you admit you were drunk.

new forum message Rename "Recent" to "Library" (New Menu Feedback)

2009-05-10T18:36:28+00:00

Me and a few mates spent ages with some beers thinking up this scheme. And you want to nit-pick?

new forum thread Rename "Recent" to "Library" (New Menu Feedback)

2009-05-10T18:24:22+00:00

I know this is just nit-picking but could you please consider renaming "Recent" in the new menus to "Library"? "Recent" is very non-intuitive. On the other hand "Library" indicates that its your library. :)

new forum message items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-10T17:20:42+00:00

Slightly different issue. The "no-tag" tag doesn't appear in the list of tags on the right. Sometimes I don't tag my articles while posting but I go in and tag them later. To tag all the "no-tag" papers, I now have to go to myciteulike > tag > search for no-tag > click on it to load the list of articles. It would great if it could appear in the right-hand-side tag list in the library.

new forum message items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-10T14:16:11+00:00

Firefox 2.0.0.20, MacOSX 10.5.6 I did not change these since several weeks, everything worked fine until friday (that was the last time I added something to my library).

new forum message items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-10T14:13:20+00:00

OK. What browser/OS are you using?

new forum message items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-10T14:11:20+00:00

I tried another item from the ACM-Portal. The problem ist not the posting, but one step before: When the window for posting the item to citeulike is opening, you could choose the tags just by clicking on them. There is the list of the my tags just below the text field for tags. Clicking on a tag makes the tag in that list appear with a read background and the tag appears in the text field. This does not work anymore. I click the tag, the background color changes, but it is not listed to the textfield.

new forum message items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-10T13:35:42+00:00

I've just tried that but can't replicate the problem. Is there any more information you can give?

new forum thread items posted to "no-tag"

2009-05-10T13:19:33+00:00

Hello,

I just discovered some interface changes for citeulike. In general, I don't like it that much, I don't like those overcrowded mouse-over-pull-down-menus. However, I posted two items using the "Post to CiteULike" browser button. Both items lost their tags. I specified several tags and filled in all information and then posted it. All information appeared in my library, but it was posted to "no-tag". Could you please fix that bug?

Thanks

Cerstin

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-10T12:08:55+00:00

Sorry - my mistake. The "Admin" is only there for CiteULike administrators (i.e., "us") - you shouldn't see one!

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-10T11:21:33+00:00

Two menus were there once I found them, and they worked. Your fix has provided the first two titles in your illustration. So it wasn't cool, minimalist design after all! There is no Admin menu, nor a title for one, nor even a division of the bar for one.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-10T08:40:23+00:00

If my assumption was correct, I've made a hot-fix that may solve it.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-10T07:45:03+00:00

Just to be clear, are you not seeing menus like this? I'm inferring you can't see the titles in the menu bar.

new forum message New menus - feedback

2009-05-10T06:59:43+00:00

What a wonderfully minimalist design change; all function links cleanly hidden on a smooth, shaded gray bar, unmarred by any lettering or other such frippery. What a great way to keep this wonderful resource to us old hands too, since it will likely defeat any newbies. It had me searching around desperately for half an hour. I love times like that. Congratulations.

And its all my Mac browsers displaying like this.

new forum message "My Copy" is not needed when viewing own library

2009-05-09T23:09:47+00:00

"Post from Google Scholar" greasemonkey script?

I found three Google Scholar -> CiteULike scripts out there. 1 2 3

However, I am not sure if they work well.

new forum message Show an one-line note for each paper in paper list

2009-05-09T23:04:21+00:00

Maybe loading the collapsed abstracts along with the paper-list might make more sense? (somewhat similar to the Scopus search results interface).

new forum message Create Bibliography in OpenOffice from hyperlinks to citeulike articles

2009-05-09T22:39:01+00:00

Thanks for your response!

The problem is that I do not want to export my whole library but just the citations I use in a certain document.

Using a list or a special tag does not solve the problem as the citations in the document change all the time and manually updating them is quite error prone ...

A very cool function would be a place where you could upload OpenOffice or Word (XML) documents and citeulike would generate a list with all the citations that are linked in that document ... but, I do not know how many other users use this way of linking their word processor documents with citeulike (the same principle should work with latex as well)

I guess my link in the first post does not work:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/957046/InstantLinnk/How_Tos/Export_Bibliogr/Export_Bibliogr.html

new forum message Where are those search items

2009-05-09T18:26:17+00:00

I'm not sure I understand.

There's items for "Search", "Authors" and "Tags" in the first column of the dropdown. These are the same functions as previously.

Of course, maybe your problem is you can't see the dropdown?

If you can't see that, there's a problem. Please let me know what browser you have.

(Mind you, if you can't see the menus, how did you post your message?)

new forum thread Where are those search items

2009-05-09T18:15:36+00:00

Why can I find the search function in the new "Myciteulike"

I can't search by "author" and other criteria from Myciteulike as before. :(

new forum message Tag auto completion feature on posting page is leaking code

2009-05-09T14:51:37+00:00

No problemo. Thanks for the quick response.

new forum message Tag auto completion feature on posting page is leaking code

2009-05-09T14:13:19+00:00

Thanks for that, especially the effort to post a screenshot. That's fixed now.

new forum message Posting from Scopus would be good

2009-05-09T13:29:30+00:00

Definitely not dead. We're still negotiating access.

new forum thread Tag auto completion feature on posting page is leaking code

2009-05-09T12:39:55+00:00

The tag auto completion feature on the article posting page is leaking code into the html. See example screen shot at: http://www.ee.kth.se/~kristgy/citeulike_autocomplete_bug.png

new forum message Create Bibliography in OpenOffice from hyperlinks to citeulike articles

2009-05-09T12:37:54+00:00

Thanks for that, Max.

Actually were quite keen to support this sort of thing as we're aware that the "last mile" is a significant missing link in our application. We could probably generate quite easily a text file with the formatted citations, 1 per line say. I don't know how you'd want the formatting (italics, bold, etc) done, but open to suggestions. Maybe a vanilla HTML file similar to your output.html?

Of course, there's already the option to export your library as RTF, which you can open in OpenOffice and "cut and paste" into your document, eliminating all the earlier steps.

new forum message Posting from Scopus would be good

2009-05-09T12:36:52+00:00

Any news on Scopus? Is it a dead issue? Thanks

new forum thread Create Bibliography in OpenOffice from hyperlinks to citeulike articles

2009-05-09T11:13:31+00:00

Hey,

I spent quite some time today trying to create a bibliography for my document. Basically, I "hyperlink" all my references like (Walsham, 2000) with the citeulike article and now found a quite complex process to generate a bibliography for my document. I uploaded the description http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/957046/InstantLinnk/How_Tos/Export_Bibliogr/Export_Bibliogr.html.

Anybody has a better way or any ideas?

Thanks!

Max

new forum message Link usability

2009-05-09T10:00:49+00:00

Thanks for that. Looks nice - we'll discuss it amongst ourselves. We've actually got some changes coming up soon in this area and maybe we'll incorporate your ideas.

Personally, though, I think all text links should be obviously clickable (and consistent within a context) so that not having the title underlined is a bit confusing.

new forum message Sorting by submit date/publish date in paper list

2009-05-09T10:00:21+00:00

Thanks, got it :)

new forum message [UI] show conference name( proceedings title) in paper list

2009-05-09T09:59:06+00:00

Looks good, your response is so quick :) Good job!

new forum thread Link usability

2009-05-09T09:42:37+00:00

I think you could improve the usability of the library list (currently showing all links at the same size and with the same styling) with some minor changes in your stylesheet. Compare the two screenshots below showing the result of the following changes to your CSS:

    a.author {
    	color: #444444;
    	background: url('http://docs.wikkawiki.org/images/icons/user.gif') left bottom no-repeat;
    	padding-left: 1.2em;
    }
    
    a:hover {
    	background-color: blue;
    	color: white
    }
     
    a.title {
    	font-weight: bold;
    	font-size: 1.3em;
    	text-decoration: none;
    }