Research Publications Web Page? 18
Jabagi writes: "Hi, I am computer engineering undergrad. and my department in the university has given me the job of doing a web site that displays its publications in digital format. So I wanted to ask if anybody knows any good [prefereably university-originated] web pages that have a publication for research pages with an easy to use interface. A very good one in my opinion is from MIT. I would also accept any suggestions to what should be included on such a page [for example, which formats do you prefer the documents to be in, what types of information should be present, etc...]"
eprints / Open Archives Initiative (Score:1)
Firstly the eprints.org author/institution self-archiving software: eprints.org [eprints.org]
It's been designed "to be as flexible and adaptable as possible so that universities can adopt and configure it with minimal effort for all disciplines".
An exapmple of its use is at the: Cognitive Sciences eprint Archive [soton.ac.uk]
It's also got other noble principles behind it:"The generic version of eprints is fully interoperable with all other OAI-Compliant Open Archives. This means that it no longer matters where papers are archived; the papers in all registered OAI-compliant Archives can be harvested using the OAI protocol into one global "virtual archive" by Open Archives Service Providers".
See the Open Archives Initiative [openarchives.org] for more info.
Oh, and our department's publication database [soton.ac.uk] isn't bad either.
Re:Postscript, pdf and bibtex! (Score:1)
There is more than one way to do it... (Score:2, Informative)
Origami (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Origami (Score:1)
Thanks everyone (Score:1)
The search engine I prepared goes through the papers in the database one by one and searches for the keyword/phrase and displays the results according to the # of hits in each db entry. It also displays a link to each papers' details and a link to its file. The details reproduce a formatted version of the information in the db for the specific paper. It also produces a bibtex entry.
Thanks for all the URLs and the advice everyone. I have decided to tell my teacher about adding pdf versions of the papers to the page. We may or may not put actual pdf copies as there are not that many papers now, but I didn't know about those conversion commands. Now that I know, I won't have to convert the papers myself.
I will try to post a link to the page as soon as it's up.
PS: One funny thing, after I submitted the question, I checked AskSlashdot for a few days and after that I assumed that it was rejected. I actually noticed this page just today when I was given a comment from this discussion to metamoderate. But still thanks again guys!..
Not a popular opinion (Score:2)
You should also include HTML and SGML formats.
Depending on your users, they might demand
In some ways, this seems like the 'Ask a SlashdotLawyer' type of questions.
-George
pdf not a bad idea (Score:1)
Actually, pdf is not a bad idea. It is what is used for publications all over the net, and it has good support, both in win and unix. Some documents doesn't work well in all pdf-viewers, but if you check if the files you create work with ghostview or other unix-equivalents, it's probably good enough.
Though, as you say, the optimal would have been a html-version in addition to this. If you mix XHTML 1.1 with MathML, it would probably get good results too, but I'm not sure how big support browsers have for MathML.
There are some tools, like 'pdftohtml', you can use. So it shouldn't be a big problem with having both versions on the site.
Let the user choose the format (Score:1)
Or you can save lots of work and space by keeping everything in one format (ps) and using scripts to convert on the fly. I'm not sure if there is a ps2pdf but I assume that their is.
Re:Let the user choose the format (Score:1)
I'm not sure if there is a ps2pdf but I assume that their is.
Yes there is :) And there are also 'ps2ascii', 'ps2epsi', 'pstotext' and 'pstohtml'. Actually most of these tools use 'gs' (ghostview) to to this conversion.
But ps is quite a large format (usually 3 times pdf), and it takes long time to convert both ps and pdf to different formats, so a cgi that creates a copy on the fly, is a bad idea :(
Re:Let the user choose the format (Score:2)
Check out the ACM (Score:3, Informative)
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery [acm.org] is rolling out The ACM Portal to Computing Literature [acm.org]. It looks to me that your timing is perfect, as they say on the ACM home page:
I learned of this from reading the article "ACM Opens Portal to Computing Literature" which appeared in the (dead tree) July 2001 Issue of "Communications of the ACM" Vol. 44, No. 7.Here is part of a salient paragraph:
I would suggest you contact the ACM and see if they have any suggestions on what you are attempting. I would expect they have already explored a number of alternatives, one of which might be just what you are looking for.If you should decide to create your own system, please consider making it open-source so that others may benefit as well.
Re:Check out the ACM (Score:2)
It provides the ability to search on a variety of fields (title, author, keywords, full text, etc) and to download in PDF if available.
Searching is free, but you need a subscription or pay-per-use to get the full text. With membership, you also get access to a useful "My Bookshelf" tool where you can save and organize search results and individual papers.
My only complaint is that for some older articles, the PDF seems to be generated from an image scan of the text, rather than the text itself, resulting in huge files for only a few pages.
Organizing Research Texts (Score:2, Insightful)
Although it pains me horribly to say it, I think PDF is a good bet. (And I hope somebody comes up with a viable alternative soon.) I'd pick that, plain HTML, and some other format you decide on that prevails at your institution--whether it be
Have fun.
Academic Repository (Score:2, Informative)
Not all of the documents cited are available for download, but those that are are available as PostScript, PDF, and GIF.
Scripts generate papers that aren't cached in a specific format on request.
The page layout is familiar enough for those used to staring at lists of academic references, and is easy to follow.
ResearchIndex (Score:1)
by citation: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs?q=slashdot&submit=S
by document: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs?q=slashdot&submit=S
(if there is a space between "Se" and "arch", Slashdot wants to keep putting it there; its not my fault).