Re: SilverPlatter default change suggestion

[Kimberly Parker <kimberly.parker@yale.edu>]

I'm hearing three votes for moving to long labels with one caution thrown in.

I'll wait for addition comments to be aired, but if no major negatives are
expressed by 12/15, I'll request this change from SilverPlatter.

--Kim

At 04:44 PM 12/5/00 -0500, Matt Wilcox wrote:
>
>Sounds good to me.  The only drawback I can see would be that it might
change 
>the default for downloading from short labels to long labels--something that 
>might mess up people popping their citations into endnote.  Endnote needs
the 
>short labels to process the records.  But the user can change the option
back to 
>short labels when downloading if they know to do so.
>
>But this said, i imagine the number of people using stuff like endnote and 
>reference manager is small compared to the number that use the databases and 
>would benefit from more understandable field names.
>
>--matt
>
>Quoting Andy Shimp <andy.shimp@yale.edu>:
>
>> Our default SilverPlatter display is now "short labels," resulting in
>> the
>> display directly below.  What do you think of asking SilverPlatter to
>> change our default to "long labels" in the second example below?  I
>> think
>> this change would make it more obvious as to what the labels mean,
>> particularly the full text link.
>> 
>> -Andy
>> 
>> Record 2 of 328 in INSPEC 2000/07-2000/10 
>>     TI: Sequential tunneling and spin degeneracy of zero-dimensional
>> states
>>     AU: Deshpande-MR; Sleight-JW; Reed-MA; Wheeler-RG
>>     SO: Physical-Review-B-(Condensed-Matter). vol.62, no.12; 15 Sept.
>> 2000;
>> p.8240-8.
>>     FTXT: OJPS Article 
>>     PY: 2000
>>     LA: English
>>     DE: impurity-states; semiconductor-quantum-wells; tunnelling-;
>> Zeeman-effect
>>     AN: 6720747
>> 
>>     View Complete Record
>> 
>> 
>> Record 3 of 328 in INSPEC 2000/07-2000/10 
>>     Title: Room-temperature negative differential resistance in
>> nanoscale
>> molecular junctions
>>     Author: Chen-J; Wang-W; Reed-MA; Rawlett-AM; Price-DW; Tour-JM
>>     Source: Applied-Physics-Letters. vol.77, no.8; 21 Aug. 2000;
>> p.1224-6.
>>     Full Text: OJPS Article 
>>     Publication Year: 2000
>>     Language: English
>>     Descriptors: electrochemistry-; molecular-electronics; monolayers-;
>> nanotechnology-; negative-resistance-devices; organic-compounds;
>>     self-assembly
>>     Accession Number: 6678486
>> 
>>     View Complete Record
>> 
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