DigiCMB

In order to increase the visibility of open access scientific and scholarly publications of the University Medical Center Groningen and thereby promoting their increased usage and impact, I am trying to create an automatically updating overview of OA publications of the UMCG, next to the beta WordPress blog that is being constructed to show all UMCG scientific publications With the masive attention the Open Access "movement" in international publising and media, I expected to this to be an easy task. But very quickly after trying to identify the resources to find these publications, it became clear that there are some serious difficulties. I won't go into details about the effects of publicing in OA or the impact factors of OA Journals , just making them visible. Many resources and overviews focus heaviliy on journal titels and sets, instead of the actual publications. Search opties are often limited, poor and it is not always possible to search for the publicat...

Sometimes I forget that the Compose editor of Blogger is really cool for simpy copy&paste stuff from webpages. I have often used it to have a peek into the source code of all kinds of embedded multimedia in websites. But now I want to share some new OpenSearch plugins I created via the MyCroft Project. You can see the (still small) list of my plugins , but I also just paste the list here, and see how it looks! Mycroft uses a script to hide the direct access to the plugin. So you will have to fill in the number of the plugin (via Mouseover!) in the search option to see the actual script. Education - Journals BioMed Central (Groningen Proxy) ( proxy-ub.rug.nl ) by Digicmb [Review] Education - Universities Institutional Repository University of Groningen ( ir.ub.rug.nl ) by Digicmb [Review] Health Mednar ( mednar.com ) by Digicmb [Review] NCBI - PubMed (Groningen Proxy) ( ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ) by Digicmb [Review] Novo|Seek ( novoseek.com ) by Digic...