Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web Export

@article{citeulike:3467077, abstract = {Many scientists now manage the bulk of their bibliographic information electronically, thereby organizing their publications and citation material from digital libraries. However, a library has been described as \^{a}€{\oe}thought in cold storage,\^{a}€� and unfortunately many digital libraries can be cold, impersonal, isolated, and inaccessible places. In this Review, we discuss the current chilly state of digital libraries for the computational biologist, including PubMed, IEEE Xplore, the ACM digital library, ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Citeseer, arXiv, DBLP, and Google Scholar. We illustrate the current process of using these libraries with a typical workflow, and highlight problems with managing data and metadata using URIs. We then examine a range of new applications such as Zotero, Mendeley, Mekentosj Papers, MyNCBI, CiteULike, Connotea, and HubMed that exploit the Web to make these digital libraries more personal, sociable, integrated, and accessible places. We conclude with how these applications may begin to help achieve a digital defrost, and discuss some of the issues that will help or hinder this in terms of making libraries on the Web warmer places in the future, becoming resources that are considerably more useful to both humans and machines.}, author = {Hull, Duncan and Pettifer, Steve R. and Kell, Douglas B.}, citeulike-article-id = {3467077}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18974831}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18974831}, day = {31}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204}, issn = {1553-7358}, journal = {PLoS Comput Biol}, keywords = {digital, library}, month = {October}, number = {10}, pages = {e1000204+}, posted-at = {2008-12-03 07:20:46}, priority = {4}, publisher = {Public Library of Science}, title = {Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204}, volume = {4}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3467077 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3467077 N2 - Many scientists now manage the bulk of their bibliographic information electronically, thereby organizing their publications and citation material from digital libraries. However, a library has been described as “thought in cold storage,� and unfortunately many digital libraries can be cold, impersonal, isolated, and inaccessible places. In this Review, we discuss the current chilly state of digital libraries for the computational biologist, including PubMed, IEEE Xplore, the ACM digital library, ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Citeseer, arXiv, DBLP, and Google Scholar. We illustrate the current process of using these libraries with a typical workflow, and highlight problems with managing data and metadata using URIs. We then examine a range of new applications such as Zotero, Mendeley, Mekentosj Papers, MyNCBI, CiteULike, Connotea, and HubMed that exploit the Web to make these digital libraries more personal, sociable, integrated, and accessible places. We conclude with how these applications may begin to help achieve a digital defrost, and discuss some of the issues that will help or hinder this in terms of making libraries on the Web warmer places in the future, becoming resources that are considerably more useful to both humans and machines. IS - 10 JF - PLoS Comput Biol SN - 1553-7358 TI - Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web PB - Public Library of Science VL - 4 SP - e1000204 KW - digital KW - library AU - Hull, Duncan AU - Pettifer, Steve AU - Kell, Douglas PY - 2008/10/31/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204 ER -