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Here's a summary of the recent happenings on CiteULike.
We've fixed a long-standing bug for formattting author names when the author's first name doesn't match the first initial e.g., "A Brian Jones". See http://www.citeulike.org/howto?show=sec4-1
Update: We've fixed a long standing bug so that "A Brian Jones" (or "Jones, A Brian") will now get the initial in the right order (AB, not BA)
Posted by thegoose.
Posted by thegoose.
There's a new option on the article page to view the posting history inline, including others' tags and notes.
Posted by thegoose.
You can now post an ISBN directly to CiteULike using "isbn:nnnnnnnnn" on the Post URL page. We migh be able to get this these to link to various places like Amazon, Google Books, etc. Any suggestions?
Posted by thegoose.
The export pages have a couple of new options. You can now exclude Amazon URLs and turn off escaping of URLs. Also, all settings are "sticky" within the current browser session.
Posted by thegoose.
We are trialling a new feedback forum Please try it out and let us know what you think.
Update (Fri 19th Jun): there was a temporary bug which prevented access to the forums. This is now fixed. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Posted by thegoose.
We've added a some features to search. The biggest change is probably a much improved author search
author:"Smith JD"
You can also search by:
year: publication year
bibkey: BibTeX key
ownpub: (Y|N) whether the article is flagged as your own publication
Posted by thegoose.
You can tweet about an article in your library. Click on [Share] to see the option.
Posted by thegoose.
We have added a new article summary page which shows article metadatas along with a list of who has posted the article and any notes that they have made.
The canonical URL is
http://www.citeulike.org/article-posts/<article-id>
In time, we'll change URLs like
http://www.citeulike.org/article/<article-id>
to redirect to the new URL.
A good example of the new page is this:
Posted by cjhall.
The first phase of the integration between citeulike and Mendeley is live. This feature will automatically export your citeulike posts to Mendeley desktop. See here for the announcement from Mendeley describing how to enable it.
Posted by kevinemamy.
If you have an article (with a DOI) and you think the metadata are wrong, you can update your library copy via CrossRef. To try this out, view the article then click on [Edit].
Posted by thegoose.
Posted by thegoose.
All of our support email address are now so compromised by spam that we think we may be missing some genuine ones. We normally reply to all emails promptly so if you haven't received an response to an email you've sent, please resend it to a temporary one we've set up - "support09@...".
We're going to introduce a web-form for contacting us in the near future. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Posted by thegoose.
We've just found out that some features of CiteULike don't work with Firefox 2. We have no quick fix for this (there's a bug in a 3rd party JavaScript library), so if it affects how you use our site, all we can suggest is to upgrade to Firefox 3 or use a different browser.
Most things do work fine, however, but there's a cool new feature we're putting up in the next few days that won't work.
Posted by thegoose.
We'll be changing the navigation "menus" tomorrow morning (UK time). The old navigation was generally thought to be confusing and the source of many complaints - we hope you'll agree this is an improvement.
Please let us know what you think. If everything goes well and we don't get any death-threats, we'll leave them on permanently.
Posted by thegoose.
One of our hard-discs filled up and has caused problems with exports to PDF/RTF/TEXT. This has been fixed.
Apologies for any inconvenience.
Posted by thegoose.
Posted by thegoose.
We've just found out that our instructions for adding the bookmarklet don't work properly for Internet Explorer any more. We've updated the instructions.
Apologies to anyone who's had problems with this.
Please note that the bookmarklet still works fine, so anyone who already has it shouldn't need to do anything.
Posted by thegoose.
There was a typo in the posting button ("bookmarklet") on the page post-registration code. Anyone who has added the button in the past week (in particular new registrants), should delete the old button from their toolbar and add a new one from http://www.citeulike.org/post. (The particular error is that it should have your username in the URL, not mine "thegoose".) No posts will have been lost - the only effect of this is that, if you're not logged in, the wrong username will get put in the login form.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Posted by thegoose.
Posted by thegoose.
There's a new list of Howtos at http://www.citeulike.org/howto . We welcome any contributions.
Posted by thegoose.
CiteULike will be unavailable for a few hours on the morning of Wednesday 25th March, from around 6am GMT to approximately 9am. We are having some new disks fitted to the server.
Posted by thegoose.
Please let us know of any problems.
Posted by thegoose.
Groups can define (in group preferences) a "home page". So if your group is, for example, blog-centric, group administrators can set that as the default page.
Posted by thegoose.
You can now navigate directly to one of your groups via My CiteULike -> Groups
Posted by thegoose.
There is now a [Blog] link on article pages, when you either own the article or are a member of the group, which will create a basic blog entry in your personal or group blogs. We will change the default content and layout based on user feedback.
Posting an article to your blog will now include all public notes.
Posted by thegoose.
There was a serious bug in the search database so it is being rebuilt. Normally this takes 3-4 hours so I'm expecting it to be finished around 14:30 GMT. In the meantime searching will return incomplete results.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Posted by thegoose.
Not many people seemed to like this, so I've disabled it.
Posted by thegoose.
Clicking on a PDF icon should now bring up a preview of the first page of the PDF. Please let us know if this works in your browser.
The preview images are still being generated and might take another 24 hours to generate. In the meantime you may see an "unavailable" image. A few PDFs don't convert properly and so you'll see the same image. I've also noticed that IE7 can't render a few of the images either, even though the same image is fine on other browsers and viewers. It might be because the source PDFs have transparent backgrounds.
Please refresh your browser cache (typically shift-Reload on the home page) to make sure you've got updated copies of the Javascript/CSS.
Posted by thegoose.
This* has been completed but please report any problems in the discussion forum
(* - thegoose in fixy-fixy mode)
Posted by thegoose.
We need to upgrade some software and CiteULike may be down for a few hours from around 1200GMT. We don't expect to be unavailable for more than 2 hours, quite probably much, much less.
Posted by thegoose.
When viewing a list of articles, you may see a link "[My Copy]". This will take you to your own copy of the article (if you have one), rather than the one of the indicated user. We thought about disabling this link when viewing your own library as, by definition, the two links will be the same, but we thought it best to keep things consistent across pages.
Additionally, if your copy of the article has an associated PDF, you will see a direct link to that.
This feature doesn't work fully when viewing a group's library.
Posted by thegoose.
UPDATE: The earlier problem with posting from ScienceDirect seems to have resolved itself.
Posted by thegoose.
You may have already noticed a new "Hide Details" link on the front page (and similar lists). When collapsed, you can click on the little grey triangle to see the details on individual articles.
Less obvious, and less useful, you can rearrange articles on a page by holding your mouse button down over the space to the left of the article. As I said, not that useful but this was just to try something out for a new feature we're thinking about.
Posted by thegoose.
We are getting a lot of traffic from Yahoo Pipes recently, bringing our server to its knees from time to time. We may have to block access.
Posted by thegoose.
On any multi-article view you will see a checkbox next to articles that you have in your library. If you click any of these, a box will magically appear at the top of the page. If you enter some tags into this box, any selected articles will have those tags added to them.
Posted by thegoose.
We are rebuilding the search database. Any new updates may take a while to appear.
Posted by thegoose.
If you view an article with any embedded TeX maths (which we define as having at least 2 $ in the text), you will see a little orange button next to the title. Pressing this will give you a popup showing the title and abstract rendered with jsMath This doesn't work as well as we'd like as it conflicts with some of our other code, but works for many cases. We might work on improving this if there's sufficient interest. This is a nice example
Posted by thegoose.
We failed to complete the upgrade this morning. We will try again next week, currently scheduled for Tuesday, 0700 GMT.
Posted by thegoose.
CiteULike will be unavailable from 0700 GMT tomorrow (Thursday). We expect it to be down for less than 2 hours.
Posted by thegoose.
JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments - Biological Experiments and Protocols on Video
Posted by thegoose.
One of our discs filled up overnight and there may have been some associated problems. We've freed up some space and things should be fine now.
Posted by thegoose.
The old one was broken. Please report any bugs.
Posted by thegoose.
There has been a bug in the ScienceDirect plugin since last night. This has now been fixed. Apologies. We only just heard about it and it was easy to fix. Please let us know as soon as you can of any similar problems - if we can't fix it straight away we'll put up a message here to let you know we're aware of a problem.
Posted by thegoose.
The plugin for http://ssrn.com/ has been fixed.
Posted by thegoose.
There seems to have been lots of problems posting articles today. This problem has now been fixed. Apologies.
Posted by thegoose.
The previously announced bug has been fixed. It affected lots of other plugins too, so we apologise if you have had problems posting your articles.
Posted by thegoose.
This fixes a few bugs and, in particular, returns abstracts in more cases. Please let us know of any problems you encounter.
Posted by thegoose.
The bug mentioned on Sunday 23 November has, we hope, been fixed. Please get back to us if not.
Posted by thegoose.
Honk
Posted by thegoose.
I've released a new version of the PDF/RTF export which has, I hope, fixed many of the bugs. The "drop down" on the export page indicates which formats are still "sub-optimal". Most problems are to do with getting the citation keys right so even the broken ones are still partially useful.
Honk
Posted by thegoose.
We've put up a first version of this which we hope will be a little bit more useful than PDFs. Certain formats still look pretty sh...awful but we thought you should get a look at what we've got in any case.
And this is where you come in. The available citation formats are pretty arbitrary so we'd like to know which ones you actually use so we can concentrate on fixing those first. Or we could add new ones.
Posted by thegoose.
You may have noticed a orange PDF button at the bottom of certain pages. This will produce a PDF file of the current view, from which you can cut-and-paste into a bibliography.
Unfortunately this is less useful than we had hoped as it appears that formatting is lost during the cut-and-paste. We are working on other formats for the export (in particular RTF).
This is an experimental feature so please let us know what you think.
Posted by thegoose.
We've changed the way article dates are handled in RSS feed. Previously the date used was when the article was first added, by anybody, to citeulike but now it's the date that you added it.
We suspect that this might mean that you will see old articles suddenly reappearing in your feed, for which we apologise. But we hope this will make the feeds a bit more useful.
Please keep us updated with your experiences in the discussion forums.
Posted by thegoose.
You can now post articles at http://www.citeulike.org/post_url.adp using a DOI instead of the article's URL. You may enter the DOI in a variety of formats, e.g.,
Normally these will be processed by our standard "plugins" but if none is available, the DOI allows us to lookup (using http://crossref.org ) the metadata for other journals. Unfortunately crossref do not supply abstracts and, for the time being, this "last chance" metadata extraction only works for journals.
We hope you find this new feature useful and, as always, we will appreciate your feedback.
Posted by thegoose.
The search facility has a bug at the moment. The 'AND', 'NOT' and 'TO' keywords don't work. Please use the alternatives '&&' and '!' for 'AND' and 'NOT'. For example:
genetic && algorithm
genetic !algorithm
I hope to fix this soon and apologise for any inconvenience.
On a related issue, we see lots of queries like
title "genetic algorithm"
tag genetics
These should be
title:"genetic algorithm"
tag:genetics
as described in the search help. I have put in a kludge to automatically fix-up some simple cases but it I would like to recommend that everyone takes a quick look at the search help - once you're familiar with the syntax you can make your searches much more powerful.
Posted by thegoose.
There's a new plugin for University of Chicago Journals
Posted by thegoose.
We have extended the search engine to include notes searching. When you search within your own library ( My Citeulike -> Library -> Search ), or the library of a group which you are a member of, article notes int that library are included as part of the search. Additionally, on that search page, there is a new Search PDFs button - this will search any PDFs that you have uploaded and return article references for articles with matching PDFs.
This is part of an on-going effort to improve the search functionality within CiteULike and was done by the latest addition to our development team, Fergus Gallagher - this work has been made possible by Springer's generous sponsorship of CiteULike.
As usual, please report any problems in the forums
Posted by cjhall.
We have moved CiteULike to a new server. It has more memory, CPU cores and disks. This will allow us to continue to grow CiteULike without adversely affecting the site's performance.
At the same time as the move to the new server, we also updated the software to use the latest versions of the database and application servers. We tested everything quite thoroughly beforehand, but there are bound to be some things we have missed. Please report any problems through the forums
Posted by cjhall.
We will be moving CiteULike to a new server on Monday 1st September. The site will be unavaliable for about 90 minutes between 10:00 and 13:00 BST (09:00 and 12:00 UTC).
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for WormBase - the online database for nematode biology.
Many thanks to Todd Harris for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the Pion sites
Posted by cjhall.
We will be upgrading our main server between 09:30 and 11:30 BST (08:30 and 10:30 UTC) on Thursday 28th August. CiteULike will be unavailable for this period.
Posted by cjhall.
Springer, the publisher of SpringerLink, one of the world's largest scientific databases, is sponsoring CiteULike. They are also going to help us further spread the word about the site and provide access to lots of technical integration opportunities, hopefully expanding CiteULike's ability to enhance the social discovery of scholarly papers.
Posted by kevinemamy.
There's a new plugin for the Korean language Daum ( http://ref.daum.net ) website.
Many thanks to Seo Sanghyeon for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the IEEE Digital Library ( http://www.computer.org/portal/site/csdl ) website.
Many thanks to Robert Blake for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the CiteSeerX Alpha site ( http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu ) website.
Many thanks to Robert Blake for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.