[Taxacom] Automated monitoring of the taxonomic literature

[Neal Evenhuis]

Hi Rod,
Call me picky, but I was disillusioned to see a date for an article given as 23 November 2021 and then click on it only to find it was a 2017 article. The date given for the articles should not be the date it was scanned or databased or whatever but the date of the publication of article (I notice a few publishers do this as well for recently-scanned formerly print-only articles that are actually much older than the scanning date given). I was looking for more recent articles than I currently get in my article alerts and didn't find any (I realize this is in the embryonic stages, but still ... I was optimistic).

-Neal

    On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 4:13 PM Roderic Page via Taxacom <
    taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

    > Hi all,
    >
    > A common theme which comes up when discussing the taxonomic literature is
    > how to keep on top of it all and keep track of recent discoveries in
    > particular taxonomic groups (e.g., what are the latest papers on reptiles).
    > Some may recall the uBioRSS tool put together by Dave Remsen and Patrick
    > Leary that has sadly been defunct for a few years. Inspired by that earlier
    > work I’ve made a start on doing something similar, which you can see at
    > https://biorss.herokuapp.com
    >
    > The goal is to have a tool that enables you to browse the latest
    > literature, drilling down by taxonomic group and/or country. I’ve only just
    > started populating the underlying database so the number of sources is very
    > limited. There is a blog post that gives some background to the project
    > https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2021/11/revisiting-rss-to-monitor-latests.html
    >
    > I’d welcome feedback.
    >
    > I’m curious as to whether the interface is useful or not. Note that you
    > can get a feed for any view so instead of relying on my interface you can
    > view the feed in any news reader. If you want an RSS feed for spiders in
    > China then you can have that.
    >
    > I’d also welcome suggestions for journals to source articles from. I’m
    > adding the obvious suspects (Zootaxa and ZooKeys, Phytotaxa and PhytoKeys)
    > but hope to add others. I’m also looking to add feeds from PubMed and
    > Google Scholar (e.g., search for “new species”).
    >
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Rod
    >
    >
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    > Roderic Page
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