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From: sys_ms@bmc.uu.se (Mats Sundvall)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.news
Subject: Re: Contents of Journal of Bacteriology, January 1989, vol. 171, no. 1
Message-ID: <5694@bmc.uu.se>
Date: 30 Dec 88 17:06:17 GMT
References: <12456556313.30.KRISTOFFERSON@BIONET-20.BIO.NET> <304@rob.UUCP>
Organization: Biomedical Center, University of Uppsala, Sweden
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In article <304@rob.UUCP>, elliston@rob.UUCP ( Keith Elliston) writes:

First of all I want to say that posting of the table of contents is a great
idea.

> Would it be possible to post the tables of contents in some standard form,
> perhaps like that of the abstracts from BRS or the other online services?  
> This would make it possible to download the TOC's and put them up into a
> local database, making the info available for searching.  This might make
> the posting of these things much more useful for those of us on the NETS.
> 
> I would propose something simple like:
> 
> AU the authors name would be listed here
> JO the journal name and citation (pages.. etc.)
> SU some subject keywords...
> TI the title.
> 
> THis would facilitate loading these TOC's into a simple database...
> 
> What do y'all think??
> 

I agree. I hope somebody can put together a program to reformat the table
of contents into something that all the reference handling softwares can
use as input.

> 
> Keith
> 
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