Comments on: dear publishers: {U}r {D}oin {I}t {W}rong http://blog.infomuse.net/2009/02/19/dear-publishers-yur-doin-it-wrong/ on LIS, grad school, academia, and other random things... Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:22:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Kristina Spurgin http://blog.infomuse.net/2009/02/19/dear-publishers-yur-doin-it-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1848 Kristina Spurgin Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:12:00 +0000 http://blog.infomuse.net/2009/02/19/dear-publishers-yur-doin-it-wrong/#comment-1848 Ha! Yes. If *I* have figured out how to script something, you better believe it is absolutely trivial. Oy. Ha! Yes. If *I* have figured out how to script something, you better believe it is absolutely trivial. Oy.

]]> By: Kristina Spurgin http://blog.infomuse.net/2009/02/19/dear-publishers-yur-doin-it-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1847 Kristina Spurgin Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:09:59 +0000 http://blog.infomuse.net/2009/02/19/dear-publishers-yur-doin-it-wrong/#comment-1847 A standard? That's crazy talk! The citation mess is so sad. But then again, we haven't had very long to get our heads around the issues of bibliographic citations in order to solve the problems... oh wait. A standard? That’s crazy talk!

The citation mess is so sad. But then again, we haven’t had very long to get our heads around the issues of bibliographic citations in order to solve the problems…

oh wait.

]]> By: Terrell http://blog.infomuse.net/2009/02/19/dear-publishers-yur-doin-it-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1846 Terrell Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:55:33 +0000 http://blog.infomuse.net/2009/02/19/dear-publishers-yur-doin-it-wrong/#comment-1846 gah! i know! it's like we need, ..., a standard or something. oh wait. gah! i know!

it’s like we need, …, a standard or something.

oh wait.

]]> By: Fred http://blog.infomuse.net/2009/02/19/dear-publishers-yur-doin-it-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-1845 Fred Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:00:02 +0000 http://blog.infomuse.net/2009/02/19/dear-publishers-yur-doin-it-wrong/#comment-1845 It is amazing how wrong publishers get citation exports. I was just working from Web of Science the other day, and everything was in all caps. Yeah, that will look good in a formatted bibliography. What is more frustrating is that in ANY programming language downcasing and nice formatting is trivial. I suppose that when you own the content, you have no motivation for actually doing anything right. Oh, and about curly brackets...Why does Google Scholar insert a second set around the entire title in their bibtex exports? Annoying. It is amazing how wrong publishers get citation exports. I was just working from Web of Science the other day, and everything was in all caps. Yeah, that will look good in a formatted bibliography. What is more frustrating is that in ANY programming language downcasing and nice formatting is trivial. I suppose that when you own the content, you have no motivation for actually doing anything right.

Oh, and about curly brackets…Why does Google Scholar insert a second set around the entire title in their bibtex exports? Annoying.

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