[LTER-im] bibliography update

Thu Mar 7 10:10:42 PST 2019

Hi Tim,

Copying the rest of IM's to try and keep folks on the same page.

Tim asks:
If authors tag papers as NSF-LTER-XXX, then when I use Zotero Connector to
scrape the metadata it will include the tag NSF-LTER-XXX.  Then I would add
the tag LTER-XXX so that it works in your bibliography.  So I'll have both
tags NSF-LTER-XXX and LTER-XXX for that item in Zotero.  I just wanted to
make sure I'm interpreting the protocol correctly. I'm about to update my
website with instructions for PIs when they publish something and I want to
get it right.

As we've moved through this process, I've come to think that we probably
can't prescribe NSF-LTER-XXX for use in papers. I thought funding source
was actually a metadata entry for papers, but it seems that some databases
(Web of Science, particularly) scrape it from the text acknowledgements
section. It's not realistic to think that we will be able to get enough
people to use that exact formulation in a text section for it to be useful.

So please use LTER-XXX in the tag or keywords for your site database (for
those we are operating within the context of our own organization, so no
need to add the NSF). In paper acknowledgements, the safest recommendation
is to use both the name of the site(s) (including LTER, if it is an LTER
paper) *and* the grant number.

Thanks, Marty

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:11 AM Whiteaker, Timothy L <whiteaker at utexas.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Marty,
>
>
>
> If authors tag papers as NSF-LTER-XXX, then when I use Zotero Connector to
> scrape the metadata it will include the tag NSF-LTER-XXX.  Then I would add
> the tag LTER-XXX so that it works in your bibliography.  So I'll have both
> tags NSF-LTER-XXX and LTER-XXX for that item in Zotero.  I just wanted to
> make sure I'm interpreting the protocol correctly. I'm about to update my
> website with instructions for PIs when they publish something and I want to
> get it right.
>
>
>
> Tim Whiteaker
>
> Research Scientist
>
> The University of Texas at Austin
>
>
>
> *From:* im <im-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> *On Behalf Of *Marty Downs
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2019 10:04 AM
> *To:* Hap Garritt <hgarritt at mbl.edu>
> *Cc:* IM committee <im at lternet.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [LTER-im] bibliography update
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *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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>
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> --
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> Marty Downs (she/her/hers)
>
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>
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