Tag Archives: Pubmed Central

From little acorns . . . A retrospective on OpenCitations

Posted on August 16, 2021 by David Shotton

The initial vision Now that OpenCitations is hosting over one billion freely available scholarly bibliographic citations, this is perhaps an opportune moment to look back to the start of this initiative. A little over eleven years ago, on 24 April … Continue reading →

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Open Citations – Indexing PubMed Central OA data

Posted on February 25, 2013 by markmacgillivray

As part of our work on the Open Citations extensions project, I have recently been doing one of my favourite things – namely indexing large quantities of data then exploring it. On this project we are interested in the PubMed … Continue reading →

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Open Citations Extension Project

Posted on July 16, 2012 by David Shotton

I am pleased to announce that the JISC have funded an extension to the Open Citations Project to run from 1st August 2012 until 31st January 2013, during which we will review and revise the technology used to create the … Continue reading →

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Like a kid with a new train set! Exploring citation networks

Posted on July 3, 2011 by David Shotton

As part of the Open Citations Project, Alex Dutton recently completed a graphing plug-in for the Open Citations web site, that permits users to generate different kinds of graphs of citation networks by querying the Open Citation Corpus for a … Continue reading →

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Who wrote this paper? Author list problems in PubMed Central references

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

To illustrate three kinds of problems in obtaining correct author lists for Open Citation data from articles in the PubMed Central Open Access subset (OASS), I take three examples, the first of which is the result of a publication policy, … Continue reading →

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Garbage in, garbage out – problems with bibliographic references

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

The Open Citations Project has aimed to liberate bibliographic references from biomedical research literature as Open Linked Data, using as its starting corpus the Open Access Subset (OASS) of articles within PubMed Central. The greatest problem faced during this project, … Continue reading →

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Input data for Open Citations – the PMC Open Access Subset

Posted on July 1, 2011 by David Shotton

PubMed, created by the US National Library of Medicine in DATE, holds bibliographic records and abstracts for essentially all journal articles published in the biomedical sciences. It currently records almost a million new entries each year! PubMed Central (PMC), created … Continue reading →

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