[LTER-im] bibliography update

Marty Downs downs at nceas.ucsb.edu
Wed Feb 13 08:04:16 PST 2019


Sorry. NSF-LTER-XXX in papers -- so we can find them. LTER-XXX in the
bibliography, because it's ours. If you've already set it up the other way,
that's fine, I can make the switch when we import them.

Cheers, Marty


On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 6:52 AM Hap Garritt <hgarritt at mbl.edu> wrote:

> Hi Marty,
>
>
> A little confused, I thought you wanted NSF-LTER-XXX for identifying LTER
> site since you mentioned that ILTER uses just LTER.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Hap
>
>
>
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> *From:* im <im-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> on behalf of Marty Downs <
> downs at nceas.ucsb.edu>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2019 5:47 PM
> *To:* im at lternet.edu
> *Cc:* lter-admins at lternet.edu; lpi at lternet.edu
> *Subject:* [LTER-im] bibliography update
>
> Hi all,
> *This is primarily addressed to the LTER information managers, but I am
> copying PIs and admins to keep them in the loop.*
>
> Thanks for the useful discussion yesterday. It's spurred a few updates to
> the process for the LTER Network bibliographies.
>
> 1) *Joining the LTER Network Zotero group. *Those who use Zotero for
> reference management are welcome to join the LTER Network Zotero group.
> While you are logged in to the *account that you want to connect* with
> the Network, search for the LTER Network group -- or go directly to this
> page: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2055673/lter_network and request to
> join at the lower right.
>
> Zotero group members with write privileges can simply drag references from
> your collection of "network" items to the corresponding LTER Network
> collection.
>
> 2) *Identifying LTER site. **Do not add the field ltersite.* I had
> thought I would adapt a translator to handle it, but that now seems unwise.
> Instead, please add a keyword (LTER-ABC) to identify your site. Be sure to
> export keywords to your BibTeX file. (also DOIs and URL's if you have
> them). You are welcome to continue including accession numbers if you have
> maintained them. If included, they will be used as the unique identifier,
> but they are not required. If they are not included, Zotero will create a
> unique identifier based on the author-title-year and entry type combination.
>
> 3) *Theses.* Zotero exports only phdthesis and mastersthesis and those
> are the only two entry types that are recognized as standard BibTex (and
> the only ones that NSF accepts in reports). Much as we would like to track
> Bachelors theses, I think it will screw up your NSF exports to do so. It's
> also clear that many sites have not tracked that information consistently
> and recreating it is an unreasonable amount of work.
>
> For the purposes of the 40 year review, *do not include* undergraduate
> theses in your export. If you are tracking undergraduate theses currently,
> please let me know how you are handling them and we'll try to come to some
> consensus.
>
> 4) *Serial updates. *
> We expect to request annual updates. Zotero has a good system for merging
> duplicates that relies on a combination of author-title-year and
> entry-type, but it still requires some manual attention.
>
> In Zotero, the date-modified field will allow you to export only the
> references that have changed after a given date. I believe that EndNote and
> most other databases have a similar field. After this initial update,
> please send only the references that have changed or been added since your
> last update.
>
> Thanks for your patience as I work through the kinks,
>
> Marty
>
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