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RE: Synonyms for periodicals
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Author: PhD
Posted: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:55:00 -0800
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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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M. Johan Broekman, PhD
Associate Research Professor of Biochemistry in Medicine
Hematology-Oncology, VA NY Harbor Healthcare System / Weill Medical
College of Cornell University
423 East 23rd Street, Room 13025W
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (212) 686-7500, ext 7494 FAX: (212) 951-3389 email:
"mjbroek"
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