Discussion on Post Google Scholar Citations to CiteULike | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by Robert Shaw @ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:11:22 -0600

Robert Shaw — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:11:22 -0600

This is a really great tool.

One development I would fine useful would be to put a 'post to citeulike' link somewhere next to each of the different sources for the article, rather than just at the top to goto the one the title links to. This would mean that where there are multiple choices I could choose one that I prefer (say Ingenta or Pubmed) and which I know is likely to work properly with citeulike.

Archived Comments, replied by Ted Kandell @ Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:51:37 -0600

Ted Kandell — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:51:37 -0600

Thanks! Basically the idea that I have is exactly what you're referring to: List those sites that have access to the free full text first, in preference to the others, and also try to get those sites which CiteULike supports too. Now, I think that there are some sites which generally fit both criteria, like PubMed Central, which has full text articles. The question is, how to know which sites have the free full text article available?

So, any ideas on an ordering scheme to try to find the site(s) with the free full text? Or a way of figuring this out, perhaps with an onClick event, that would only do the search once the button was clicked and just for that article?

See, at least for life sciences papers, if the full text is available, PubMed shows the link for it, or multiple links. There should be something analogous for all the other academic fields too, and then it would just be a matter of accessing those few sites to check if the full text is available, in a certain order, and stopping the search on the first hit.

If you think that that would actually work, then I can write that onClick callback to access first the Google Scholar "all X citations" page, read in all the sites, and then access them in a certain order to see if the full text is out there. If anyone can come up with a list of sites guaranteed to show if the full text is available or not, then I'll implement that.

Archived Comments, replied by Myselfine @ Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:05:16 -0600

Myselfine — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:05:16 -0600

This script rockz!

Actually, I did not get your problem. For me it would be the most convenient thing to specify a list of providers for which I have (subscribed) access or to put it another way: the sources I want to be listed first. I may restrict them to sources for which citeulike plugins are available, but accessing the full text is more important to me than the automated grabbing of metadata.

I also agree with you that citeUlike is more useful than connotea.

Archived Comments, replied by Ted Kandell @ Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:37:09 -0600

Ted Kandell — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:37:09 -0600

It works, more or less, for all results on a Google Scholar results page. There are some issues with a DOI redirect, because currently CiteULike doesn't follow these. Also, CiteULike doesn't yet support OCLC WorldCat, which gives bibliographic citations for books, but as soon as that plugin is implemented, I and then parse the Google Scholar Book results too, and create links for those.

Sometimes, it seems, that some papers don't have links in Google Scholar for the larger citation sites, like Entrez PubMed, and IngentaConnect - even though these papers appear on those sites. Finding those links would make even more papers automatically post to CiteULike.

Google Scholar only lists at most three links for each paper, and has link for "all X versions" to a page that lists the rest. I've tried to sort the links according to those sites that usually have the full text available for free. JSTOR, even though the full text may be freely available, has access restrictions for the general public unless the IP address is owned by one of the subscribing institutions.

There is a way around these problems: I could write something for the onClick event to fetch the "all X versions" page, and then find the appropriate links from there if possible, if one wasn't found already (or just do that by default.) If no CiteULike supported site link was found, I could do a search on the larger citation sites to see if the paper is really there too.

I think that while it may be feasable onClick to retrieve all the links from the "all X versions" page automatically, I don't think I should implement the following of DOI redirection links - that should be in CiteULike itself, and Google Scholar should fix their spidering of links and find all the citations that are actually out there. If that doesn't happen, there is always the option that CiteULike could do the secondary searching.

Now, since Google Scholar already has the full citation for a search result, perhaps that could be made available via (a possibly hidden) link for each one? That way, there would be no real need to parse *any* journal or citation page ... just pass the link onto CiteULike.

I'd like to hear what people think of these options.

(People might know this already, but NPG's Connotea doesn't retrieve the full citation - users are pasting the Abstract into the description field for example to get around this. CiteULike has fields for every possible piece of bibliographic information already in it's database structure, and so is much more useful than Connotea for academic papers, IMHO.)

Archived Comments, replied by Harsh Shah @ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:33:38 -0600

Harsh Shah — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:33:38 -0600

Sorry, got it now. It's for ff 1.5 only. Previously I trid it on ff 1.0.7.

Archived Comments, replied by Harsh Shah @ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:29:12 -0600

Harsh Shah — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:29:12 -0600

How does it work? I don't see any links on google scholar search page that says "add to citeulike" or something. If it does work, will it add journal name, title, author etc automatically?

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews @ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:24 -0600

Jesse Andrews — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:05:24 -0600

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