Sexy bibliography upgrades

Over the holidays I published upgrades to the bibliographic system on SaveYourself.ca that are nearly invisible, yet “cool” — if you’re a librarian or database geek. The bibliography remains the best-kept secret of SaveYourself.ca. Visitors rarely realize what’s under the hood here. For the record:

• Scientific journal titles are now automagically consistent. Instead of manually entering them, official abbreviations are now matched to a database of journal titles. Data goes in easier and comes out better.
• Similarly, the production of links to PubMed records has been automated: rather than a messy database of thousands of links, 10% of which seem to be broken at any given time, virtually every PubMed-able link will now work every time, no matter where it appears on the website.
• Although still due for more upgrades, the display of individual bibliographic records has been upgraded with much better links, especially groovy link options — this window or that window — for any links.

Here’s an example, using a citation that will feature in some upcoming posts: