On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Robert Barron wrote:
> But is there any way of finding these references besides seaching JSTOR,
> Google scholar, etc? Most "hits" on TLG are actually about the TLG
> engine itself and not from articles using it.
There may be some things that could be learned from other disciplines? For
example, in bioinformatics, the journal Nucleic Acids Research publish an
annual database issue. The article on GenBank always includes a phrase
like: "If you use the GenBank database in your published research, we ask
that this article be cited." I'm not sure how often this request is
honoured, but a quick look through Web of Science reveals a relatively
high level of citation, e.g.:
2004: 170; 2005: 235; 2006: 204; 2007: 163; 2008: 145; 2009: 40
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/38/suppl_1/D46
This approach uses the published paper as a surrogate for the database,
but - in the absence of clear guidance on the citation of databases -
it does enable some kinds of usage to be tracked.
Michael Day
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