If we need to create a database of our own, for scientific literature, without going through the expensive services of Thomson, Elsevier or other data provider, there are some wonderful (and free of cost) tools who may help.
Let's figure we need to create/validate a list of scientific articles references; an easy way could be to use google scholar, by looking for the articole/journal title.
Ok, then?
Then we may use zotero, a firefox extension that help in collecting and managing data of articles and supports export in formats like Bibtex, refer, RIS and many others.
In other words, zotero is nothing but an xtml parser, able to recognize from the webpage what kind of publication (book, article, webpage, proceeding) is facing, and download the relevant informations.
After zotero, in order to handle better and have even more export forrmats (like MySQL fi) I suggest to use jabref, another free tool, that can be feeded from Zotero by exporting data in Bibtex.
With the two of them we can build and handle any dimension of scientific literature DB
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