Utopia Documents is a semantic, scientific, web-enabled

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reader that is part of the Utopia toolset. Utopia Documents can be downloaded for free. Utopia provides links to web resources and metadata. Although Utopia is a PDF-reader, it bridges the web-connectivity gap with HTML content by making normally static PDFs fully web-enabled (as long as the user is online). Since June 2, 2014, Utopia Documents changed their license to become

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under GPLv3.

Versions

Utopia Documents v. 3.1 is available for

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(XP, Vista and Windows 7), Mac (

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10.6 (Snow Leopard) and above) and Linux (beta).

Software Features

Utopia Documents can be used in the same way as any other

reader, such as

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Reader or the Preview application on a Mac. The application's workspace is split into three main panes (which can be collapsed): the PDF file itself is displayed on the left, a 'pager' is displayed at the bottom, and a sidebar to the right. The pager allows you to scan back and forth through the document and to move rapidly from one page to another. Although you can use Utopia Documents to look at any PDF file, the software really comes into its own as a reader for scholarly papers in the biomedical and biochemical fields. * Free PDF reader available for Windows, Mac and Linux (beta) * Recognizes a document by creating a unique ‘fingerprint’ of its contents as it is rendered and associates it with any version of the article, even if it is a manuscript version deposited into an institutional repository * Fingerprints are created on the basis of interalia or key typographical and bibliometric characteristics (authors, figures, references etc.) A PDF is "transformed from a digital facsimile of its printed counterpart into a gateway to related knowledge, providing the research community with focused interactive access to analysis tools, external resources and the literature" * Direct link-outs from highlighted text to various data sources, scientific information, and search tools * Article impact metrics e.g.

altmetrics In scholarly and scientific publishing, altmetrics (stands for "alternative metrics") are non-traditional bibliometrics proposed as an alternative or complement to more traditional citation impact metrics, such as impact factor and H-index, ''h ...

are included when available to allow readers to view article data * Comments feature to allow researchers to make private comments or publicly discuss an article * Export of tables into spreadsheets and 'toggle' converting numerical tables into scatter plots * Optimized for life science-biomedical-biochemical scientific disciplines * Relies on external services; accessed via plugins whose appearance in the interface is mediated by a ‘semantic core’ for processing and analyzing data

Data Sources

The following data sources are accessed in Utopia Documents and activated automatically whenever there is relevant content to display:
Altmetric

* CrossRef *

Dryad (repository) Dryad is an international open-access repository of research data, especially data underlying scientific and medical publications (mainly of evolutionary, genetic, and ecology biology). Dryad is a curated general-purpose repository that makes data ...

GPCRD
See also

G protein-coupled receptor G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), also known as seven-(pass)-transmembrane domain receptors, 7TM receptors, heptahelical receptors, serpentine receptors, and G protein-linked receptors (GPLR), form a large group of evolutionarily related ...

Mendeley Mendeley is a reference management, reference manager software founded in 2007 by Doctor of Philosophy, PhD students Paul Foeckler, Victor Henning, Jan Reichelt and acquired by the Dutch academic publishing company Elsevier in 2013. It is used to ...

* NucleaRDB *

PubMed PubMed is an openly accessible, free database which includes primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institute ...

Reflect
*

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the ...

SciBite
* The Semantic Biochemical Journal * SHERPA/RoMEO

References

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