[Taxacom] Finding your species in Mendeley

Tue Dec 6 02:55:02 CST 2011

Dear Geoff,

On 5 Dec 2011, at 23:40, Geoff Read wrote:

> Rod mentioned WoRMS earlier. Just to point out that in WoRMS,
> www.marinespecies.org, one can already get the list of marine species
> authored by anyone by a taxon search using the Authority option. For
> example 'd'Orbigny' yields links to 412 marine species names (d'Orbigny is
> unlikely to be setting up a Mendeley account any time soon, so this is
> handy). Name disambiguation is possible at least by taxon group, and by
> date of publication (eg., easy to find that d'Orbigny published at least
> 179 species in the 1830s, from which a further 106 recombinations exist).

Yes, using Mendeley requires that the author be alive and online! My goal here is to explore various ways of engaging people with what is in many ways a tedious task, building lists of names and linking them to the primary literature. One reason I like Mendeley is that it is technically easy to make it possible for people to discover "their" content in one database simply because they've created an account on Mendeley and added their own publications. In other words, they've done something for one reason and can get added value for minimal effort.

> 
> WoRMS has a way to go with achieving literature mapping and the important
> facility to quickly open the original publication, supplying the link for
> which for new entries may be viewed as optional by some editors (not me),
> but it has a good literature list with mostly full rather than micro
> citations. There may already be an automatic link to the BHL mentions of
> the older species.

My sense is that most of the literature in WoRMS is "secondary", in the sense that it comprises checklists, etc., which are used as sources for names, and an authority for usage of the name. I'm taking with Ward Appeltans about adding links to the primary literature from http://iphylo.org/~rpage/itaxon .

Regards

Rod

> 
> Geoff
> 
> On Tue, December 6, 2011 5:28 am, Roderic Page wrote:
>> Following on from my earlier message about Mendeley (and thanks to those
>> who responded) here's a blog post explaining why I asked the question, and
>> how you can use your Mendeley account to find species you've described in
>> my taxonomic name -> literature mapping project:
>> 
>> http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2011/12/these-are-my-species-finding-taxonomic.html
> 
> 
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