[okfn-labs] [Open-access] crowdsourcing platform for academic journals

Wed May 22 12:41:35 UTC 2013

Hi Peter,

Is it based on templates or certain smart algorithm which can be used
on most journal websites?

Liang
http://journaltank.org/

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> We have done this for crystallographic papers
> (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye/summary/index.html ) where we have
> trawled the exposed metadata (PubCrawler, NickDay/SamAdams, open source) for
> publisher/journal/issue/article hierarchy using the publisher ToCs. This
> couldn't be definitive (i.e. in a court) but it's good enough for most
> people. As long as publishers provide  online ToCs then we can do this
> fairly easily technically.
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Cameron Neylon <cn at cameronneylon.net>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Do you know how to get DOI range?
>>
>>
>> I'm afraid I don't, but maybe someone on these lists does?
>>
>>
>> Not sure if someone else answered this but technically speaking the idea
>> of a DOI range doesn't really exist. Certain prefixes are granted to
>> publishers but the DOIs are attached to papers, not publishers, thus if a
>> journal moves publishers then the DOIs go with it. Similarly (although I
>> don't think this has happened in practice) a publisher might get a new
>> prefix.
>>
>> On top of this there is no requirement for consistency of presentation for
>> the DOI suffix, so the idea of a range which can be traversed by counting
>> through is misleading. For instance BMC DOIs appear to made up of the BMC
>> prefix (10.1186) the journal ISSN and the volume and "page number". You
>> can't count through these. And of course BMC is owned by Springer so who is
>> the "publisher" in this case?
>>
>> At the end of the day the DOI prefix can tell you with some confidence
>> which publisher minted the DOI associated with a given paper. CrossRef
>> explicitly say that this can't be relied on - for some of the reasons given
>> above - but I've not come across major problems assuming this.
>>
>> Unfortunately the one thing you can't do, which is what would be useful,
>> is to get a full list of DOIs for a given publisher. You can do it per
>> journal if you query search.crossref.org with an ISSN
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Cameron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> > There's a whole load of OA journals & their RSS feeds we could add from
>>> > DOAJ
>>> > with a bit of data munging I think.
>>>
>>> Can we do it automatically?
>>
>>
>> Possibly.
>>
>> I have a gist of 1176 CC BY licensed OA journals and their ISSN's here. No
>> RSS feeds for them though: https://gist.github.com/rossmounce/5083733
>>
>> Have you thought about using Crowdcrafting to get people to add details,
>> rather than drupal?
>> e.g. something like this: http://crowdcrafting.org/app/oajournals/
>> It might be prettier...
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I just added OA or not field,
>>
>>
>> Cool. I hope you're using the BOAI definition of OA? A lot of journals
>> online are just 'free access' rather than explicitly open access I'm afraid,
>> and it's tricky to work out which is which. I suggest you change that field
>> to 'free access' (Y/N) to reduce complexity.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Very promising...
>>> >
>>> > Ross
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> > From: SHEN Liang <shenzhuxi at gmail.com>
>>> > Date: 14 May 2013 16:42
>>> > Subject: [okfn-labs] crowdsourcing platform for academic journals
>>> > To: okfn-labs <okfn-labs at lists.okfn.org>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjfpjwzLd5bUdEY5MF9KUmROaW1WZklOYmoweEtZakE&usp=sharing
>>> > is a list of 14266 journals' feed from http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/
>>> > several years ago and they've stopped releasing it.
>>> >
>>> > I think it will be very useful to have a crowdsourcing platform like
>>> > wikipedia for academic journals, so I imported this list into Drupal.
>>> > http://shenzhuxi.com/journals is a quick prototype and I'd like to
>>> > hear more suggestions.
>>> >
>>> > wikijournal.org seems to be the best domain name but it's not
>>> > available.
>>> >
>>> > More fields like website url, impact factor (not sure about the
>>> > copyright), publication frequency, Open Access, RSS/ATOM and etc. will
>>> > be good to be added and maintained by the community.
>>> >
>>> > Also It will be nice to dump all the journal feed items from Google
>>> > Reader (https://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI) and
>>> > collect regularly in the future. Since Google Reader will be closed
>>> > soon, I talked about the historical data with JournalTOCs
>>> > https://twitter.com/JournalTOCs/status/312180502184476672, but they
>>> > don't have.
>>> >
>>> > Liang
>>
>>
>>
>>
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