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RE: Synonyms for periodicals
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Author: Info
Posted: Tues, 09 Aug 2005 16:30:00 -0800
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Hi Han,
The Journal synonym list is still here:
http://www.researchsoftware.nl/kb/gforum.cgi?post=36
However, since version 9, the standard Journal Names (full and abbreviated) are in your Reference Manager installation directory. There are several:
Chemical.pst
Medical.pst
Humanity.pst
The name of each file says enough, I assume.
PLEASE MAKE BACKUPS OF YOUR DATABASE FILES [each database has a database file (.rmd) and a index file (.rmx). The rmd is the most important one. From a sole .rmd file you can make a new accompanying rmx file (by using the menu item "rebuild database")].
Now, how to get these Journal names in your database?
New database:
1. File - New database
2. Give the database a name
3. Than before clicking "New" just click on "Advanced"
4. In that new screen you see several interesting items:
- Database definition: this is to copy the field and ref type structure of another existing database to the database you would like to create. You should first choose "Database" before browsing and selecting the "source"
database
- Periodical Synonyms: this is hopefully the thing you are looking for.
Default it says "None". But if you click on None, you are able to select "Medical". Select Medical to create this database with all full and abbreviated names of Journals (you will see them appearing in the Term Manager").
- Default sort customization
5. After selecting "Medical" (or Humanity or Chemical), click "Ok" and than "New". Now a new database will be created and it will contain all medical (or Humanity or Chemical) journal names.
Existing Database:
1. Close all databases
2. File-Open database
3. Access rights: Read-Write Exclusive
4. Activate Term Manager via Tools-Term Manager-Activate (or F5)
5. Choose the "Periodicals" tab so that you see the periodicals
6. Tools-Term Manager-Copy Periodicals
7. Different options:
- Default is set to "Copy From: Database". That means that you can select an existing Reference Manager database which already has a nice Journal names list. That list from an existing database will be copied to the current database
- The other options are again Medical (or Humanity or Chemical). Select Medical (or Humanity or Chemical)
8. Now click "Ok". Again all Medical Full and abbreviated Journal Names will be copied to the current database.
Tip:
You may create your own "pst" file and put it in the program directory of Reference Manager (9, 10 or 11).
It should be a text file with the following structure:
ACES Bulletin ACES Bull.
Acta Oeconomica Acta Oecon.
<full journal1 name><tab><abbreviated journal1 name><tab> <full journal2 name><tab><abbreviated journal2 name><tab> <full journal3 name><tab><abbreviated journal3 name><tab>
American Economist Amer. Economist
So per line one journal:
full name, a tab, abbreviated name and again a tab (without the comma's)
Than save this file with the extension .pst (e.g., economy.pst) and put it in the program dir of Reference Manager. Next time you will see your own list appearing in the "Advanced" screen (see above) and in the "Copy periodicals" screen (under Term manager, again see top of this message).
Good luck and greetings from Holland!
Suat
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-----Original Message-----
From: "listmaster"
"mailto:listmaster" On Behalf Of "M.Johan.Broekman"
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 11:55 PM
To: "RIS-List"
Subject: RE: Synonyms for periodicals
Hi Karyn and Suat:
Below is a portion of a thread from January 2002 on the difficulty of how to keep journal names with all their synonyms straight. This is a problem that frustrates me increasingly. It seems that every few weeks I have to go through the Term Manager, and weed out the extra journal names that have cropped up due to "improper" import of references using journal website databases, Pubmed, and what not. It's obvious to me, but not to RM11, that NEJM, New Engl J Med, The New England Journal of Medicine, New Engl.J.Med., and so on are all the same journal.
The thread below seemed to indicate a way to cut out all this garbage, but the details elude me now. Moreover, I can't find that synonyms.rmx file at researchsoftware.nl anymore (I think).
I have become lazy at some point, and now I have a heavily "contaminated"
database. Apart from all the extra journal names, the keywords have also become totally useless.
Questions:
1. Is anything known about any upcoming RefMan 12 trial? I think we need to impress upon ISI that RM11 has some definite problems and shortcomings, and some centralized depository of wishes and suggestions should be set up in time for ISI to act on this.
2. Is there now any kind of file that could be regarded as *the* definitive synonym compilation (at least of PubMed journals)?
3. How can one (given that some kind of synonym file exists <grin>) set up RM 11 so that no extraneous "weird" journal names start contaminating the database upon import from journal websites?
3. Is it possible to start a new database, and then prevent any new journal names from being added without operator approval. Obviously, I would also like having a keywords database that is controlled in some way by me, rather than the import process.
4. Is there any way to automatically make author names into synonyms?
Broekman,M.J. should be synonymous with Broekman,M. Johan, and Broekman, Marinus J.
I'm rather sure that these are questions that have been discussed before, but I'd like a simple, step by step procedure by which I could "sanitize"
my current database. Using the Term Manager is horrible, since every time a change has been performed the global edit window has to be closed and reopened. Moreover, it would be so simple if you could choose 2 or more names or terms, and just click "make synonymous".
On another subject, I still like the ability to use the RefID number, rather than auth name+ date. That makes it easier to just throw the printouts consecutively into the file cabinet <grin>. I do file almost all articles as pdf files in a tree structure, where most journals have their own subdirectory, and the files are named "vol#"-"page#"
RM"refID#".pdf.
the link than goes into the pdf link field as for example (JCB being J.Cell
Biol.):
file://E:\Acrobat Downloads\JCB\86-0021 RM5907.pdf I use the F4 function to search for authors, with * wildcard to adjust for synonymous first names/initials.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
Han Broekman
(sig at bottom)
At 12:58 PM 1/10/2002, you wrote:
>I have several large databases (~5000 refs) and am wishing to create
>synonyms so that differing journal titles/abbreviations are recognised
>as one journal. Eg Br Jnl Ca is the same as British Journal of Cancer -
>in terms of duplicate checking and retrievals. Does anyone have a
>moment to spare to let me know how this can be done? Thanks in advance
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
>
>The short answer is to download the list that's already been made. Last
>April, Cindy Gregory posted this:
>
>I realize this is probably too late, but for what its worth, there is a
>periodical synonym dictionary created for Ref Man 8.x that includes
>only index medicus journals (still may be too large for your needs).
>It can be downloaded from
>http://www.researchsoftware.nl/cgi-bin/forum/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro&
>categ ory=5&BypassCookie=true (which is a bulletin board run by DISC -
>other helpful RM stuff there) I used it for ours and it works great.
>The instructions are a bit sketchy, but basically you download their
>database which is called "synonyms.rmx" -- it is an empty database with
>the synonyms set up. Then copy your references into it. good luck.
>sorry if this is too late.
>
>Cindy Gregory, PhD
>Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest
>
>.....................
>
>The list is the complete list of journals indexed in Medline--I believe
>as of 1998--and their official _Index Medicus_ abbreviations.
>
>Once you've loaded it, use F5 (term manager) to go in and add whatever
>additional synonyms you need; for instance, Br Jnl Ca is =not= the
>official NLM abbreviation of the British Journal of Cancer: that's Br J
>Cancer. Be =very= careful that non-standard abbreviations really do
>refer to the journal you think they do. There are journal names out
>there that are amazingly similar, even identical; in the latter case,
>they are usually published in different countries.
>
>Because of the length of the list, you may want to edit it. For
>instance, I took out all the veterinary journals and those in Chinese
>and other languages I sincerely doubted would often be used.
>
>Cheers,
>Karyn Popham
>Trusting you're using RefMan 8.x or 9.x, for which I know this works
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