I like this. A lot. If I could add a bit of advice from a domain of personal interest, I highly recommend pulling economics papers from repec.org as well as from individual journals. Right now the best way to stay on top of new papers in econ is the nep.repec.org mailing lists, and I'd much prefer to pull them down via RSS. Good niche, and I like the presentation.
What a great resource. I like the fact that the searches work for the abstracts and not just the titles.
Would it be possible to display the journal titles alphabetically - scanning through "Journal of ...." is hard work.
Edit: Some of the rss feeds from journals are way out of date. e.g. Journal of Avian Biology lists only 2 papers from 2009. Displaying date ranges for the feeds might be useful.
By adding dates it would be easy to see where journals are not keeping their feeds up to date and so give some feedback on the relative quality of the search results.
Does this only do open access journals? I wonder if something like this could be adapted to work with a link resolver for subscription aggregators like EBSCO or JStor? This basically looks like a free version of EBSCO A to Z.
I love this! Is there a way to cut to the chase, taking it to the logical conclusion: a plain, old, linear RSS feed for every published academic journal?
As a former organometallic chemist, I immediately tried to get find a subfeed for chemistry. Best I could do was:
http://paperfeed.org/taxonomy/term/636
journal listings. Any thoughts on making RSS by tag available?
Yes, I had that feature enabled for a while but then removed it. In the case of "Chemistry", you'd end up with one RSS feed for hundreds of journals, maybe too wide a selection for most users.
If I can generate enough interest in this site, the next phase would be to add User Accounts, and let the user check off which feeds he/she wants to track. Then they would have their own RSS feed based on that selection, that they could view on the site or pull using a feed reader.
I want to build some pagerank and see the interest level before continuing.
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[ 1076 ms ] story [ 2222 ms ] threadI'm sorry if I broke any rules, but I didn't find any guidance on the "Guidelines" page.
Would it be possible to display the journal titles alphabetically - scanning through "Journal of ...." is hard work.
Edit: Some of the rss feeds from journals are way out of date. e.g. Journal of Avian Biology lists only 2 papers from 2009. Displaying date ranges for the feeds might be useful.
If you visit the Journal of Avian Biology on the publisher's site, you only get those two items... http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/rss/journal/118513172
AI Communications (RSS Feed: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/103140/?sortorder=asc&...)
Computational Linguistics (RSS Feed: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/action/showFeed?ui=0&mi=...)
Natural Language Engineering (RSS Feed: http://journals.cambridge.org/data/rss/feed_NLE_rss_2.0.xml)
Other big chemistry ones that aggregate multiple (chemistry) journals are: http://chemfeeds.com/ http://cb.openmolecules.net/
If I can generate enough interest in this site, the next phase would be to add User Accounts, and let the user check off which feeds he/she wants to track. Then they would have their own RSS feed based on that selection, that they could view on the site or pull using a feed reader.
I want to build some pagerank and see the interest level before continuing.