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Friday, February 23, 2007

Nature Network - add papers to profile by PMID

Nature Network v2 was launched on Valentines Day. Nature Network, in case you haven't heard of it before, is sort of like MySpace for scientists (except not crap). Previously it was restricted to scientists in the Boston area, but this new version allows anybody to sign up, network with others, post to blogs and forums, set up a profile... you get the idea.

There's space on your profile to enter the papers that you've authored, which is cool. Unfortunately for lazy people like me you have to enter the details of those papers manually (or at least you do for now).

Luckily the form HTML is of great semantic beauty. Thus: nnaddbypmid.user.js, a quick Greasemonkey script that fetches paper metadata from PubMed using the the EUtils. Follow the 'add publication' link on your Nature Network profile as normal, then fill in the PMID textbox and click on the new 'look up details' button. Voila! The other fields should get filled in automagically.

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At February 25, 2007 12:17 PM, Blogger Pierre said...

Cool, it worked fine for me.
Pierre

 
At February 26, 2007 3:06 PM, Blogger Egon Willighagen said...

Same here: works great! Too bad that not all my publications are listed on PubMed :(

 
At February 26, 2007 3:08 PM, Blogger Stew said...

Yeah... maybe it could be adapted to work off the DOI instead (only problem with that is that the CrossRef metadata is a bit rubbish).

 
At February 28, 2007 6:02 PM, Blogger Konrad Förstner said...

Thanks, that saves a lot of time. (okayokay, I don't have so many papers but still ;))

 
At April 11, 2007 1:12 PM, Blogger Egon Willighagen said...

Adding papers to blogs uses a different URL, so was not automatically picked up by the userscript. Can you add the below URL type, or have it work for all network.nature.com area?

http://network.nature.com/groups/new_publication/63

For those who want to make the hack themselves:
1. right click on the monkey in the firefox toolbar
2. choose 'manage scripts'
3. click the Nature Network script on the left
4. 'Add' this patter: http://network.nature.com/groups/new_publication/*

 

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