Making Open Access articles much more visible, automatically

houshuang's bookmarks 2013-01-26

Summary:

"In April, I wrote about my desire to make OA publications much more visible on my academic wiki, and whenever I cite them. The first challenge was to capture the URL I downloaded the files from (ideally automatically), and then check if it is "truly" OA, and not just available to me because I am using the university network....So I figured out a way to get the URL from the file metadata, and created a simple API to check if the file was indeed a PDF, and available to the world. I then store this information in the bibtex metadata using the field oa-url and url (the url field is used by other software, but there is no guarantee that it points to a PDF, or that it's OA). Since then, I've upgraded the API to become much more robust..."

Link:

http://reganmian.net/blog/2013/01/25/making-open-access-articles-much-more-visible-automaticall/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » houshuang's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.interoperability oa.metadata oa.software oa.tools oa.semantic oa.apis

Date tagged:

01/26/2013, 09:45

Date published:

01/26/2013, 09:06