[Nhcoll-l] Vouchers and specimen citation tracking

[Shoobs, Nate]

Dear colleagues,
Question for you: how do you record whether a specimen has been cited in the literature, and what do you consider a citation of a specimen to be?

At OSUM, I’ve been taking a very liberal approach to specimen citations – that is, even if the specimen is not cited by number in the body of a text, if data from that occurrence/record was used in a paper, the specimen record has the citation added, with info on the page, graph, or plate where the specimen is used/figured/, if possible.
I store all this info in one field, a standardized citation string that includes the doi and the page and figure number where applicable. For papers in BHL or other sites with stable URLs, I include the link to the page in the paper itself.

I’m curious how in-depth others on this list go when recording citation data for specimens. My goal is ‘extending the specimens’ for users of the collection, and also tracking citations for impact reasons.
Best,
Nate
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[The Ohio State University]
Nathaniel F. Shoobs
Curator of Mollusks
College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
Museum of Biological Diversity, 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH 43212
614-688-1342 (Office)
mbd.osu.edu<http://mbd.osu.edu>
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