Weblogs : More on scholarly blogging. For another tool to make blogs more useful for scholarship, see Hewlett-Packard's Semantic Blogging for Bibliography Management. From the web site: "Semantic blogging exploits [the] personal publishing, syndication, aggregation and subscription model [used in existing blogging] but applies it to structured items with richer metadata data. The metadata would include classification of the items into one or more topic ontologies, semantic links between items ("supports", "refutes", "extends" etc.) as well as less formal annotations and ratings." The result is a superior blogging platform for content discovery, cross-linking, aggregation, selection, and integration with other sources and applications. (Thanks to Leigh Dodds.) [Open Access News]  9:09:02 AM   [Feedback ]  

Metadata : OAI : PubMed Central is OAI-compliant and offering new services. In October, PubMed Central (or a portion of it) became OAI-compliant. One consequence is that it now allows users to download the the full-text XML for its open-access articles and FTP the text, data, and image files associated with an article. See the PMC list of open-access PMC journals for the scope of these important new services. [Open Access News]  7:29:28 AM   [Feedback ]