Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-22 Thread Phoebe Rice
-- Original message >Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:16:48 -0600 >From: CCP4 bulletin board (on behalf of Jacob Keller >) >Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material >To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > >It seems to me that this problem is really a hold-over from comp

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-22 Thread Jacob Keller
erg, Bert > Gesendet: Monday, November 22, 2010 3:45 PM > An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material > > > > ?? I don’t know if I understand the question, but don’t most journals have > references that do include the article titles? &g

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-22 Thread Clemens Steegborn
nient for the journals that we won't be able to change it . Best Clemens Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] Im Auftrag von Van Den Berg, Bert Gesendet: Monday, November 22, 2010 3:45 PM An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary ma

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-22 Thread Van Den Berg, Bert
OK I get it, its about the supplements...apologies. Bert On 11/22/10 9:35 AM, "John R Helliwell" wrote: Dear Jacob, Additional content, like article titles, whether print or online, need to be checked properly for accuracy. Article titles (if supplied by authors) can often need heavy checking,

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-22 Thread Van Den Berg, Bert
?? I don't know if I understand the question, but don't most journals have references that do include the article titles? Science, Nature, Cell, NSMB, PNAS, JMB, Structure all have references titlesas they should. Bert On 11/22/10 9:35 AM, "John R Helliwell" wrote: Dear Jacob, Additional

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-22 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Jacob, Additional content, like article titles, whether print or online, need to be checked properly for accuracy. Article titles (if supplied by authors) can often need heavy checking, and online systems to check bibliographic information are not always reliable or comprehensive. This I think

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-22 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Francois, To my knowledge there are very few Journals that have article references with titles. In crystallography I know of Crystallgraphy Reviews. Best Wishes, John On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Francois Berenger wrote: > Hello, > > For me the citation format is also a major problem. >

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-22 Thread Jacob Keller
It seems to me that this problem is really a hold-over from compromise with the exigencies of hard-copy publishing, i.e. a way to save physical space. Further, there seem to be many aspects of e-publication that have not adapted to the strengths/weaknesses of the new medium, which could and should

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-21 Thread Francois Berenger
Hello, For me the citation format is also a major problem. When the title of the paper is not shown, it really hinders the work of trying to find which references are worthwhile reading. I think it may even have a negative impact on the number of citations a paper get. I don't know if it has be

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-19 Thread Jacob Keller
I think you are right--it would have to be a centralized site, like the openacademia.org proposed by Peter Mika. I think there should be several levels in the site, which would correspond to level of closeness to phenomena, somewhat like the progression from abstract > discussion > results > method

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-19 Thread Nat Echols
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Jacob Keller < j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu> wrote: > I took a look at his slides--looks pretty interesting, and I would > have liked to have heard the talk! I am not sure I would be ready to > advocate having no more journals, but I am interested in thinking >

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-19 Thread Jacob Keller
echnical information at all, except >>>>> for the supplement.  I've started to avoid using Nature papers for class >>>>> discussions becuase they leave the students so puzzled, and with a >>>>> glossiness-is-all-that-matters idea of science

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-19 Thread John R Helliwell
perhaps? (I know there are about a thousand > > cynical reasons why not...) One could even have a place for > > "reliability rating" or "impact rating" on each new chunk of data. > > Anyway, it would be much more like a real-time, public lab notebook, > >

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-19 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
earch/01_Faculty/01_Faculty_Alphabetically.php?faculty_id=123 http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp Original message Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:12:26 + From: CCP4 bulletin board (on behalf of John R Helliwell ) Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary materi

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-19 Thread John R Helliwell
PK > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Phoebe Rice wrote: > > Another unfortunate aspect of this sort of editorial policy is that many of > these papers contain almost no technical information at all, except for the > supplement.  I've started to avoid using Nature papers f

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-18 Thread Bosch, Juergen
PLOS has the option of double blind review without author line & references so that you can't even guess unless you are very familiar with the subject who the last author might be. Not sure though how many people have used this option. Jürgen - Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Pu

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-18 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
I like the online methods sections with e.g. Nature papers that also come with the pdf - they also count for citations, the citations are not within the manuscript allowance on numbers, they get peer reviewed and they actually leave quite a lot of space for readers to understand the experim

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-18 Thread Poul Nissen
have individual labs just >>>>>> post their most recent data and interpretations on their own websites, >>>>>> with a comments section perhaps? (I know there are about a thousand >>>>>> cynical reasons why not...) One could even have a pla

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-18 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
op/books/2008/9780854042722.asp ---- Original message Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:12:26 + From: CCP4 bulletin board (on behalf of John R Helliwell ) Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Dear Victor, I strongly support the stance that is i

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-18 Thread James Stroud
e Rice wrote: >>>>> Another unfortunate aspect of this sort of editorial policy is that many >>>>> of these papers contain almost no technical information at all, except >>>>> for the supplement. I've started to avoid using Natur

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-18 Thread John R Helliwell
t;>> >>>> >>>> = >>>> Phoebe A. Rice >>>> Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology >>>> The University of Chicago >>>> phone 773 834 1723 >>>> http://bmb.bsd.uchicago

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-17 Thread Jacob Keller
ge >>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:12:26 + >>From: CCP4 bulletin board (on behalf of John R >>Helliwell ) >>Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material >>To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> >>Dear Victor, >>I strongly support the stance tha

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-17 Thread Phoebe Rice
=123 http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp Original message >Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:12:26 + >From: CCP4 bulletin board (on behalf of John R >Helliwell ) >Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material >To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > >Dear V

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-17 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Victor, I strongly support the stance that is in the Acta D Editorial. Manfred Weiss worked very hard assembling those details and over quite some time; he deserves our thanks. Greetings, John On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Victor Lamzin wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to bring to you

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-17 Thread Phil Evans
Given that an increasing amount of material is going into supplementary data, it would be better if the citation indexers could be persuaded to count supplementary references. I see no reason why they shouldn't Phil On 17 Nov 2010, at 16:06, Victor Lamzin wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like t

Re: [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-17 Thread Alexandre OURJOUMTSEV
Envoyé : mercredi 17 novembre 2010 17:06 À : CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Objet : [ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material Dear All, I would like to bring to your attention the recent Editorial in Acta Cryst D (http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2010/12/00/issconts.html), which highlights the long-st

[ccp4bb] Citations in supplementary material

2010-11-17 Thread Victor Lamzin
Dear All, I would like to bring to your attention the recent Editorial in Acta Cryst D (http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2010/12/00/issconts.html), which highlights the long-standing issue of under-citation of papers published in the IUCr journals. The Editorial, having looked at the papers