Latest Blue Obelisk Greasemonkey

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Add quotes from PostGenomic and Chemical Blogspace to journal

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to rewrite the HTML of a webpage on-the-fly. Pedro Beltrão was the first to think of adding a link to journal Table of Contents pages whenever a particular paper had been reviewed on PostGenomic.com. I extended Pedro’s script to include a clickable pop up of the actual blog post as described by Egon.
I have just released a new version, described on the Blue Obelisk wiki and available from User scripts. This incorporates comments from both Postgenomic and Chemical Blogspace, although you can use the menu to choose just one or the other.
Feedback is welcome. In particular, what journals would people like to see added? Currently, only the following websites are included, although others may work if you add them (please let me know if they do):
  • http://pubs*.acs.org/*
  • http://www.rsc.org/*
  • http://www*.interscience.wiley.com/*
  • http://www.nature.com/*
  • http://*.oxfordjournals.org/* (Added 01/May/07)
  • http://*.plosjournals.org/*
  • http://www.pnas.org/*

Here’s the obligatory screenshot showing a recent issue of Nature containing quotes from both Chemical Blogspace and Postgenomic:

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This is very exciting. It makes your browser a semantic lens for a whole host of journals. The chemical blogosphere is becoming the primary place where the chemical literature is reviewed as soon as it is published (or sometimes before!)

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3 Responses to Latest Blue Obelisk Greasemonkey

  1. Great idea!
    Perhaps there are http://www.inderscience.com journals that might be worth including and perhaps http://www.aip.org and http://www.iop.org
    db

  2. baoilleach says:

    Thanks for the suggestion, but I’ve checked for the existence of articles from these journals on CB and PG. Either nobody syndicated by PG or CB have written about articles in these journals, or else neither PG nor CB extracts DOIs relating to these journals.

  3. Egon says:

    I’ve hacked in something similar but then for molecules:
    http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2007/05/cb-comments-for-inchis.html

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