Research article
Open Bibliography for Science, Technology, and Medicine
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* Corresponding authors: Jim Pitman pitman@stat.berkeley.edu - Peter Sefton ptsefton@gmail.com
1 Cottage Labs, 13 Brougham Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 9JX, UK
2 Open Knowledge Foundation, Cambridge, UK
3 University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, Edinburgh, UK
4 Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
5 Departments of Statistics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
6 ptsefton, Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350, Australia
Journal of Cheminformatics 2011, 3:47 doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-47
Published: 14 October 2011Abstract
The concept of Open Bibliography in science, technology and medicine (STM) is introduced as a combination of Open Source tools, Open specifications and Open bibliographic data. An Openly searchable and navigable network of bibliographic information and associated knowledge representations, a Bibliographic Knowledge Network, across all branches of Science, Technology and Medicine, has been designed and initiated. For this large scale endeavour, the engagement and cooperation of the multiple stakeholders in STM publishing - authors, librarians, publishers and administrators - is sought.