I found this via Jon Udell’s blog and thought it might be useful for those of you who are expecting to host scientific papers in your repository.
It is a tool that could be embedded in a repository splash page to reveal what open access conversations are occurring about an open access paper. The tool uses either doi, url or pmid and displays:
- blog postings that have discussed the paper (using postgenomic);
- comments that have been made on pubmed;
- people who have bookmarked the paper using connotea;
- how many citations are recorded for the paper on pubmed central and scopus.
The demonstrator is avaliable from Alf Eaton’s Hublog
It might be worth reading Jon Udell’s blog post for the background that lead to Alf Eaton posting this demonstrator.
Now I don’t use a repository on a daily basis so this may have disadvantages that are hidden from me, or be problematic to embed in a repository, but I think that putting this kind of tool on your repository might be a nice selling point for any scientists you are trying to convince to deposit.
I would love to hear from anyone who has tried this out on a live repository.
Posted by: Andy McGregor
Filed under: institutional repositories, open source projects | Tagged: institutional repositories, open source
