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...

In a recent email it was explained that NARCIS, National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System now offers RSS-feeds for search results, or even a widget you can embed in your website or blog I think it is interesting to keep up what is entered into NARCIS by or about the UMCG. So the search "universitair medisch centrum groningen" OR UMCG ", gave me 101 results divided in 6 tab-results Every set of results can be saved as RSS feed, embedded or added to your Favourites, EXCEPT the "ALL Sources". I tried to merge these 5 rss-feeds into one via Pipes.Yahoo.com  and it seemed to work. You can see the result on the UMCG Web Presence Scan Public Page ; Publications Tab