Managing the Scientific Literature Overload: Digital Object Identifiers and Scopus

This publication is an English-language version of the Directory of Georgian Scientific Periodicals. The directory contains the bibliographies of 149 international scientific periodicals that have been assigned ISSN by the ISSN International Centre and the Georgian National Centre and which reflect to a certain extent their preparedness for entering international scientific literature databases. The publication details are taken from official journal websites, are publisher-checked and certified. The directory data served as a basis for the Georgian scholarly journals’ monitoring and identifying the international scientific literature database entry criteria: publications’ peer-review, periodicity, independent website, international editorial board membership, DOI (Digital Object Identifier) assignment, the state of indexing in academic databases, etc.

Download Full-text

Editors' Comments Managing the Scientific Literature Overload: Digital Object Identifiers and Scopus

10.17705/3jmwa.00036 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2018 (1) ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Daniel Power ◽

◽

Rassule Hadidi ◽

Keyword(s):

Scientific Literature ◽

Digital Object

Download Full-text

Directory of Scientific-Periodicals of Georgia

10.36073/978-99928-810-7-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Madona Kopaleishvili ◽

◽

Irina Bedinashvili ◽

Nelly Makhviladze ◽

◽

...

Keyword(s):

Scientific Literature ◽

Official Journal ◽

Digital Object Identifier ◽

Digital Object ◽

Scholarly Journals ◽

National Centre ◽

Board Membership ◽

Literature Database ◽

Scientific Periodicals

The directory contains the bibliographies of 149 international scientific periodicals that have been assigned ISSN by the ISSN International Centre and the Georgian National Centre and which reflect to a certain extent their preparedness for entering international scientific literature databases. The publication details are taken from official journal websites, are publisher-checked and certified. The directory data served as a basis for the Georgian scholarly journals’ monitoring and identifying the international scientific literature database entry criteria: publications’ peer-review, periodicity, independent website, international editorial board membership, DOI (Digital Object Identifier) assignment, the state of indexing in academic databases, etc.

Download Full-text

Discovering the Platypus: From its scientific description to its DOI

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards ◽

10.3897/biss.4.59089 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

Author(s):

Nicole Kearney

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Best Practice ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Journal Articles ◽

Digital Object ◽

Citation Data ◽

Scientific Publications ◽

Scholarly Literature ◽

The Past

The first description and illustration of the duck-billed platypus appeared in the scientific literature in 1799. Since its international debut, the platypus has fascinated the scientific community. The past 200 years of scholarly literature is peppered with journal articles containing taxonomic revisions and details of the bizarre biology and behaviour of this paradoxical species. Yet, despite the fact that much of this historic literature is now accessible online, it is almost impossible to find. This is because, unlike contemporary scientific publications, much of the digitised historical literature lacks article-level citation data and digital object identifiers (DOIs). This paper will detail the work the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is undertaking to bring the world’s historic literature into the modern linked network of scholarly research. It will present three case studies – three “lost” platypus articles from three very different publications – to demonstrate how the retrospective registration of DOIs is critical to making legacy literature discoverable, citable and trackable. This paper will also discuss the responsibility and accountability that comes with assigning DOIs, including best practice for out-of-copyright and orphaned content, and the issues that arise when the definitive (DOI’d) versions of public domain journal articles are locked behind paywalls.

Download Full-text

Transform DOI system into a giant science hub

10.31219/osf.io/gr7ue ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Khaled Moustafa

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Current Mode ◽

Digital Object Identifier ◽

Digital Object ◽

Error Message ◽

Scientific Publications ◽

New Location ◽

Scientific Fields

In its current mode of identification of scientific publications, the digital object identifier (DOI) is not more than a web linking of published material to their publishing sources. When a given DOI is searched in the DOI website (doi.org), we are redirected to the publishing websites, if the material is available, or an error message (Not Found) will appear if the DOI-associated content is not available or has moved to a new location. To bestow a worthwhile value to DOI assignations, I suggest the establishment of a unique persistent DOI database (for e.g., as a DOI hub, DOI library, or DOI indexer) in which all the DOI assigned by publishers and journals will be listed in one and same place with basics bibliographic metadata and complete citation information, including the DOI link itself, authors’ names, manuscripts’ titles, publishing source, date of publication, and ideally abstracts and full text if available for free (open access). As a result, when a DOI is searched in the DOI hub, full bibliographic information should be retrievable regardless of its status in the publishing source. Basic indexation information and metadata associated with published articles will thus be always accessible and findable independently from the publishing sources. A unique, general and long-term preserved DOI hub will make it easy to search, find and cite scientific literature from the various scientific fields even if a journal or publisher ceases its publishing activity.

Download Full-text

Specimen Identifiers in Related Disciplines: What can Biodiversity Learn from and Offer to Other Fields?

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards ◽

10.3897/biss.2.26615 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. e26615 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Simon J D Cox ◽

Kerstin Lehnert ◽

Jens Klump ◽

Lesley Wyborn ◽

Ramona Walls

Keyword(s):

Scientific Literature ◽

Life Sciences ◽

Geological Samples ◽

Digital Object ◽

National Agency ◽

Additional Information ◽

Small Set ◽

Original Motivation ◽

Single Set ◽

Volunteer Group

Life sciences research, and even more specifically biodiversity sciences research, has yet to coalesece on a single system of identifiers for specimens (physical samples collected for research) or even a single set of standards for identifiers. Diverse identifier systems lead to duplication and ambiguity, which in turn lead to challenges in finding specimens, tracking and citing their usage, and linking them to data. Other research disciplines provide experience that biodiversity sciences could use to overcome these challenges. Earth sciences/geology may be the most advanced discipline in this regard, thanks to the use of the International GeoSample Number (IGSN) system, which was established to provide globally unique identifiers for geological samples. The original motivation of IGSN was to overcome duplication of sample numbers reported in the scientific literature and to support the correlation of observations on the same samples carried out by different laboratories and reported in different publications. The IGSN system is managed through a small set of 'allocating agents' who act on behalf of a national agency or community, under the overall coordination of the IGSN Organization - a volunteer group representing a mixture of research institutions and agencies. Similar to widely-recognized Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), the primary requirement of an allocating agent is to maintain the mapping from an IGSN to a web 'landing page' corresponding to each sample. A standard (minimal) schema for describing samples registered with IGSN has been developed, but individual IGSN allocating agents will often supplement the base metadata with additional information. Other efforts are working on cross-disciplinary sample metadata schemas, but no single core standard has been agreed upon yet. An important part of the development of the IGSN system has been an engagement with scholarly publishers, with a goal of making each mention of an IGSN within a report or paper be a hyperlink, and also for links to other observations relating to the same sample to be automatically highlighted by the publisher.

Download Full-text

A 200-Year History of the Study of Childhood Language Disorders of Unknown Origin: Changes in Terminology

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups ◽

10.1044/2019_pers-sig1-2019-0007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 6-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Laurence B. Leonard

Keyword(s):

Language Impairment ◽

Specific Language Impairment ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Language Disorder ◽

Language Disorders ◽

Unknown Origin ◽

Developmental Language Disorder ◽

The Past ◽

History Of ◽

The Many

Purpose The current “specific language impairment” and “developmental language disorder” discussion might lead to important changes in how we refer to children with language disorders of unknown origin. The field has seen other changes in terminology. This article reviews many of these changes. Method A literature review of previous clinical labels was conducted, and possible reasons for the changes in labels were identified. Results References to children with significant yet unexplained deficits in language ability have been part of the scientific literature since, at least, the early 1800s. Terms have changed from those with a neurological emphasis to those that do not imply a cause for the language disorder. Diagnostic criteria have become more explicit but have become, at certain points, too narrow to represent the wider range of children with language disorders of unknown origin. Conclusions The field was not well served by the many changes in terminology that have transpired in the past. A new label at this point must be accompanied by strong efforts to recruit its adoption by clinical speech-language pathologists and the general public.

Download Full-text

Development of Reading Remediation for Dyslexic Individuals

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000259 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 224 (4) ◽

pp. 240-246 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Mélanie Bédard ◽

Line Laplante ◽

Julien Mercier

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Behavioral Data ◽

Educational Neuroscience ◽

Reading Remediation ◽

Functional Brain ◽

Neurophysiological Data ◽

Brain Correlates ◽

Research Questions ◽

The Brain

Abstract. Dyslexia is a phenomenon for which the brain correlates have been studied since the beginning of the 20th century. Simultaneously, the field of education has also been studying dyslexia and its remediation, mainly through behavioral data. The last two decades have seen a growing interest in integrating neuroscience and education. This article provides a quick overview of pertinent scientific literature involving neurophysiological data on functional brain differences in dyslexia and discusses their very limited influence on the development of reading remediation for dyslexic individuals. Nevertheless, it appears that if certain conditions are met – related to the key elements of educational neuroscience and to the nature of the research questions – conceivable benefits can be expected from the integration of neurophysiological data with educational research. When neurophysiological data can be employed to overcome the limits of using behavioral data alone, researchers can both unravel phenomenon otherwise impossible to document and raise new questions.

Download Full-text