Here's a summary of the recent happenings on CiteULike.
There's a new plugin for University of Chicago Journals
Posted by thegoose.
We have extended the search engine to include notes searching. When you search within your own library ( My Citeulike -> Library -> Search ), or the library of a group which you are a member of, article notes int that library are included as part of the search. Additionally, on that search page, there is a new Search PDFs button - this will search any PDFs that you have uploaded and return article references for articles with matching PDFs.
This is part of an on-going effort to improve the search functionality within CiteULike and was done by the latest addition to our development team, Fergus Gallagher - this work has been made possible by Springer's generous sponsorship of CiteULike.
As usual, please report any problems in the forums
Posted by cjhall.
We have moved CiteULike to a new server. It has more memory, CPU cores and disks. This will allow us to continue to grow CiteULike without adversely affecting the site's performance.
At the same time as the move to the new server, we also updated the software to use the latest versions of the database and application servers. We tested everything quite thoroughly beforehand, but there are bound to be some things we have missed. Please report any problems through the forums
Posted by cjhall.
We will be moving CiteULike to a new server on Monday 1st September. The site will be unavaliable for about 90 minutes between 10:00 and 13:00 BST (09:00 and 12:00 UTC).
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for WormBase - the online database for nematode biology.
Many thanks to Todd Harris for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the Pion sites
Posted by cjhall.
We will be upgrading our main server between 09:30 and 11:30 BST (08:30 and 10:30 UTC) on Thursday 28th August. CiteULike will be unavailable for this period.
Posted by cjhall.
Springer, the publisher of SpringerLink, one of the world's largest scientific databases, is sponsoring CiteULike. They are also going to help us further spread the word about the site and provide access to lots of technical integration opportunities, hopefully expanding CiteULike's ability to enhance the social discovery of scholarly papers.
Posted by OriginalLurch.
There's a new plugin for the Korean language Daum ( http://ref.daum.net ) website.
Many thanks to Seo Sanghyeon for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the IEEE Digital Library ( http://www.computer.org/portal/site/csdl ) website.
Many thanks to Robert Blake for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the CiteSeerX Alpha site ( http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu ) website.
Many thanks to Robert Blake for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the Royal Society of Chemistry ( rsc.org ) website.
Many thanks to Kristinn Gylfason for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
We have added a connections feature. Connections allows you to make contact and exchange messages with other CiteULike users, and to view a summary of the recent activity of these users.
We'll be adding other features in the near future. Please use the discussion forums for comments, bug reports and feature requests.
Posted by cjhall.
You can now indicate, for each article in your library, whether you are one of its author(s). There is a form with a checkbox on the article page (below the tag-editing box) which allows you to set this indicator. Your list of publications is available from your profile tab, or directly from a URL like this:
Posted by cjhall.
A German-speaking CiteULike user has kindly created a CiteULike tutorial and made it available here [moodle.donau-uni.ac.at].
Posted by cjhall.
We've added a new Neighbours feature. Your CiteULike neighbours are other CiteULike users who have posted the same articles as you. If you are logged-in, then the list of your neighbours is available on the "My CiteULike" drop-down menu. If you want to see another user's neighbours list, it's available under that user's profile tab, or directly from the URL, for example:
When looking at a list of neighbours, you can click on the article counts to show the list of articles which the two neighbours have in common.
This is an impementation of a web page originally created by Sascha Carlin
Posted by cjhall.
We've changed the site navigation to use a horizontal menubar rather than the collection of links at the left of the page. We think this tidies things up a bit, as well as making space for a few new sponsored links. Please let us know if you have any problems in your browser.
Posted by cjhall.
We've added a RIS file import. It works in the same way as the BibTeX import, and is available from the Import sub-tab of your library.
Posted by cjhall.
You can now specify multiple tags in URLs for a user's library (URLs which look like /user/username/tag/tagname).
To specify that multiple tags should be present, separate them with commas ",". To specify that a tag shouldn't be present, precede it an exclamation mark "!".
There are a couple of examples on the discussion forum here
Posted by cjhall.
We've made article notes use the same text format for markup as forum messages, reviews and blog articles - the new format is properly documented and supported by us. Old notes have been updated, where possible, to be use the new formatting.
Posted by cjhall.
We've added a CiteGeist feature to show which articles are "hot" (sorry about the name, but we just couldn't resist it).
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the Annual Reviews site.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the Open Repository family of sites.
Many thanks to Graham Triggs for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the AMS (American Meteorological Society Journals) site.
Many thanks to Dan Hodson for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the EdITLib (Education & Information Technology Library) site.
Posted by cjhall.
The article posting page has been modified to allow you to upload a PDF document at the same time as you post an article. It's possible to upload the PDF to private groups at the same time - if you do this you will need to indicate that you have the right to do this.
When copying an article from your own library to one or more groups, there is also the option to copy the PDF as well.
Posted by cjhall.
For people wanting to write software to integrate with CiteULike, there are two sources of data which may be useful.
Firstly, making a request to
or
where the "..." is replaced with the URL of an article on the web (properly url-encoded) will tell you whether CiteULike is able to extract the metadata from it.
Secondly, a dataset mapping CiteULike article_ids to things like URLs, DOIs, Pubmed IDs, etc is available. See the data download page for further details.
Posted by camster.
There's a new plugin for the PsyCONTENT site.
Posted by cjhall.
Following on from an interesting blog post by John Udell there's now a way for programmers to write tools to query CiteULike and find out who has posted a particular article.
The following links will fetch an XML representation of which users and which groups have posted a particular Pubmed article or DOI:
Again, this might not much sense unless you're a programmer wanting to automatically query the CiteULike database.
Posted by camster.
There's a new plugin for the Education Resources Information Center site (ERIC).
Posted by cjhall.
We've tidied up the article pages to make them a bit more readable. Years of new features had been piling up in no particular order and the pages were just getting a bit unwieldy. All the functionality that was there before is still there, but hopefully it should be a little bit easier to find now.
Posted by camster.
There's a new plugin for the International Union of Crystallography site .
The IUCr site uses frames, so to bookmark an article using the bookmarklet you must have the abstract open in its own page - the URL should then look something like:
If you are browsing articles, you can get to this page by finding the DOI link and using it to open the article in a new page or tab.
Many thanks to Aidan Heerdegen for contributing this plugin.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the Liebert Online site published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Many thanks to Dr. Nathan Edwards for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
The BibTeX import has been extended to allow you to update articles in your target library. The article to update is found by matching the BibTeX key. An update only takes place if exactly one matching article is found, otherwise a new article is created. A match to more than one article raises an error.
When updating an article, you can specify whether tags ('keywords' in the BibTeX file) should be merged or replaced. The same merge/replace applies for notes ('comment' or 'note' in the BibTeX file). If the keywords or note/comment field contains the string '-delete-all-', this is taken as an instruction to delete all the tags/notes for that article (unfortunately, a blank field is discarded, so that doesn't work).
Posted by cjhall.
If you have an author in your CiteULike library containing an accented character (like "Erdős") then it will now be formatted correctly if you export it as a BibTeX record.
In this case you'd get "Erd\H{o}s" rather than "Erdős". Computers seem to prefer it that way round, which only goes to show how dumb they can be sometimes.
Posted by camster.
We've added a new plugin for the Cambridge Journals site published by Cambridge University Press.
Posted by cjhall.
We've made a number of changes to the user interface. These are mainly in response to user requests through the discussion forums.
Posted by cjhall.