Egon Willighagen: chem-bla-ics: Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching
ab1630's bookmarks 2018-01-02
Summary:
"I have blogged about Scholia and the underlying Wikidata before. Following the example of this WikiProject Zika Corpus I am using Scholia (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70407-4_36, or in Scholia, of course :) as a tool to support a literature study, to collect articles about a certain topic. Previously I used it to track the publication trail around the Elsevier-SciHub interactions. But when I was linking the Compound Interest infographics for the Advent 2017 series to Wikidata items (aiming to archive them on Zenodo) and ran into the poisonous mistletoe graphics of day 9. In this graphics it mentions the phoratoxins. Sadly, not too much was recorded about that in Wikidata. So, I did an quick scan of literature (about half an hour, using Google Scholar). I ended up with a few articles about the chemistry of this compound, and as good open scientists I used Wikidata and Scholia as a notebook:..."