University of Glasgow

Roderic Page

One of my pet projects is [BioStor](http://biostor.org), which has been
running since 2009 (gulp). BioStor extracts articles from the
Biodiversity Heritage Library (details here:
[http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-187](http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-187)),
and currently has over 110,000 articles, all open access. The site
itself is showing its age, both in terms of performance and design, so
I\'ve wanted to update it for a while now. I made a demo in 2012 of
[BioStor in the
Cloud](http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2012/11/biostor-in-cloud.html), but
other stuff got in the way of finishing it, and the service that it ran
on ([Pagodabox](https://pagodabox.io)) released a new version of their
toolkit, so BioStor in the Cloud died.

At last I\'ve found the time to tackle this again, motivated in part
because I\'ve had to move BioStor to a new server, and it\'s performance
has been pretty poor. The next version of BioStor is currently sitting
at <http://biostor.gopagoda.io> (the
[images](http://biostor.gopagoda.io/images) and
[map](http://biostor.gopagoda.io/map) views are good ways to enter the
site). It\'s still being populated, and there is code to tweak, but
it\'s starting to look good enough to use. It has a cleaner article
display, built in search (making things much more findable), support for
citation styles using citeproc-js, and display of altmetrics (e.g.,
[Another variation on the gymnure theme: description of a new species of
Hylomys (Lipotyphla, Erinaceidae,
Galericinae)](http://biostor.gopagoda.io/reference/113676).

Once all the data has been moved across and I\'ve cleaned up a few
things I plan to make bistor.org point to this new version.


One of my pet projects is BioStor, which has been running since 2009 (gulp). BioStor extracts articles from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (details here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-187), and currently has over 110,000 articles, all open access. The site itself is showing its age, both in terms of performance and design, so I've wanted to update it for a while now.

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Towards a new BioStor