Archive for October, 2009
Displaying citation counts in DSpace
In the repository world we’ve known for a while now that unless the repository provides value to a researcher, they won’t use it. Nothing pleases a researcher more than to see nice big citation counts for their papers. Wouldn’t it be nice if DSpace repositories could display the citation count for archived papers?
I received an [...]
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If SWORD is the answer, what is the question?
I’ve just had a new collaborative paper published: ‘If SWORD is the answer, what is the question?’ (DOI: 10.1108/00330330910998057). It covers the most recent iteration of the SWORD repository deposit standard, looks briefly at some issues around the present lack of adoption of SWORD, and most usefully presents seven use cases of SWORD written by [...]
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SWORD PHP Library version 0.9 released + moved to github
I have just released version 0.9 of the SWORD PHP library. It has a few fixes and changes, the most noteworthy being:
Changed swordappservicedocument to build the servcedocument from the xml response rather than having the swordappclient do the work. This allows the service document to be parsed at a later time.
Changed the swordappclient deposit method [...]
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Library Mashups book – Chapter 17 now Open Access
A new book ‘Library Mashups – Exploring new ways to delivery library data‘ has now been published. The book, edited by Nicole Engard, has a great list of 25 authors from all across the globe, including well known names in the library-tech world such as Tim Spalding, Ross Singer, Bess Sadler and Bonaria Biancu. The [...]
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