University of Glasgow

Roderic Page

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width="130" height="60" style="float:right;padding:8px;"}My article
describing [BioStor](http://biostor.org) --- \"Extracting scientific
articles from a large digital archive: BioStor and the Biodiversity
Heritage Library\" --- has finally seen the light of day in *BMC
Bioinformatics*
([doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-187](http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-187),
the DOI is not working at the moment, give it a little while to go live,
meantime [you can access the article
here](http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/187)).  
  
Getting this article published was more work than I expected. There
seems to be an inverse correlation between how important I think the
work is and how easy it is to get published --- the more straightforward
I think the article is the more work it is to convince the referees of
its merits. Of course, it may be that my judgement of the article\'s
merits influences how much effort I put into making the manuscript as
rigorous and clear as possible. And perhaps having a blog has spoiled
me, I really struggle with the notion that it takes months to publish a
paper, especially as most of the intellectual debate involved (i.e., the
refereeing process) is behind closed doors, compared to the open and
immediate nature of commentary on a blog post.  
  
However, despite my frustrations with the referring process, there\'s no
doubt that it did improve the manuscript (you can see the original
version at Nature Precedings,
[hdl:10101/npre.2010.4928.1](http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2010.4928.1)).  
  
With the publication of this article, and last week\'s [conversation
with Anurag Acharya and Darcy Dapra about getting BioStor indexed by
Google Scholar](http://twitter.com/rdmpage/status/71261954852929536), it
has been a good few days for [BioStor](http://biostor.org).  
  
  
  


My article describing BioStor — "Extracting scientific articles from a large digital archive: BioStor and the Biodiversity Heritage Library" — has finally seen the light of day in
<em>
 BMC Bioinformatics
</em>
(doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-187, the DOI is not working at the moment, give it a little while to go live, meantime you can access the article here).  Getting this article published was more work than I expected.

BioStor article published (finally)

Finally submitted (two days late) a manuscript for the [*BMC
Bioinformatics* Special Issue on Biodiversity
Informatics](http://www.uvm.edu/~insarkar/bmc/) organised by Neil Sarkar
and sponsored by EOL and CBOL. The manuscript, entitled \"bioGUID:
resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity
informatics\" describes my [bioGUID](http://bioguid.info/) project. If
you are interested made pre-print available at Nature Precedings
([hdl:10101/npre.2009.3079.1](http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3079.1)).


Finally submitted (two days late) a manuscript for the
<em>
 BMC Bioinformatics
</em>
Special Issue on Biodiversity Informatics organised by Neil Sarkar and sponsored by EOL and CBOL. The manuscript, entitled "bioGUID: resolving, discovering, and minting identifiers for biodiversity informatics" describes my bioGUID project. If you are interested made pre-print available at Nature Precedings (hdl:10101/npre.2009.3079.1).

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

BioStor article published (finally)

bioGUID manuscript