CrossRef Goes Live: Journal Reference Linking Service Membership Roster Grows to 33 Publishers.Business Editors/High-tech Writers BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE--June 5, 2000--Ed Pentz, Executive Director of CrossRef, today announced that the first links enabled by the collaborative reference-linking service have been activated on the World Wide Web. "CrossRef is now well on its way to becoming the comprehensive source for linking journal articles. The reference links that researchers want and need are starting to appear," said Mr. Pentz. A demonstration of the live reference links can be accessed at http://www.crossref.org/demos/gallery.htm. Mr. Pentz reported that as of today, ten of the member publishers have submitted more than 1.3 million article records in about 2,700 journals to CrossRef's Metadata Database. Submission of the records is the first step of the multi-step process; CrossRef members then use this information to enable the links from references in their journal articles to other publishers' content. Approximately 1,100 journals now have live reference links enabled by CrossRef; examples are Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (Elsevier), Brain Research (Elsevier), Cancer (Wiley), European Journal of Biochemistry (Blackwell), Journal of Comparative Neurology (Wiley), Journal of Investigative Dermatology (Blackwell), Journal of Molecular Biology The Journal of Molecular Biology is a scientific journal published weekly by Elsevier, under the Academic Press imprint. It publishes original scientific research concerning studies of organisms or their components at the molecular level. (Academic), Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (Springer), and World Journal of Surgery (Springer). CrossRef enabled links will appear in a few different formats, depending on the preferences of each publisher (for example, CrossRef button or "Article" in html). In the coming weeks and months, a constantly increasing number of records will be submitted and live reference links will appear. According to Mr. Pentz, eleven publishers have recently joined CrossRef, bringing the current total to 33 member publishers. These include:
American Chemical Society
American Geophysical Union
American Physical Society
Annual Reviews
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
British Medical Journal CAB International Institution of
Electrical Engineers (IEE) Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
The Royal Society
Thieme Verlag
Active discussions are underway with many more scientific and scholarly primary journal publishers to expand this broad-based, industry-wide initiative, which was initially announced in November 1999. CrossRef is operated under the aegis of the not-for-profit organization jointly formed by the member publishers and incorporated as PILA. Its Board of Directors includes Eric A. Swanson, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Chairman (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :JW.a); Pieter Bolman, Academic Press, Treasurer (NYSE:H); Michael Spinella, AAAS AAAS American Association for the Advancement of Science. ; Marc Brodsky, American Institute of Physics The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a professional body representing American physicists and publishing physics related journals. It was founded in 1931. The aims of the organization are: "promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its ; John R. White, Association for Computing Machinery See ACM. Association for Computing Machinery - Association for Computing ; John Strange, Blackwell Science; John Regazzi, Elsevier Science (NYSE:ENL Noun 1. ENL - an inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face erythema nodosum leprosum Hansen's disease, leprosy - chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical )(NYSE:RUK RUK Reserviupseerikoulu (Hamina, Finland, Reserve Officers' School) RUK Are You Kidding? ); Anthony Durniak, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. ; Jeffrey K. Smith, Kluwer Academic Publishers; Stefan Von Holtzbrinck, Nature Publishing Group Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is an international publishing company that publishes scientific journals. It is a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, which in turn is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. ; Martin Richardson, Oxford University Press; and Ruediger Gebauer, Springer-Verlag. CrossRef operates behind-the-scenes by enabling member publishers to add reference links to their online journals. Users of the online journals see, click on, and follow the links directly to the content; there is no visible CrossRef interface. Publishers control access to their content. CrossRef is run from a central facility operated by Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (PILA), and utilizes the Digital Object Identifier
A digital object identifier (or DOI) is a permanent identifier given to a document, which is not related to its current location. (DOI (Digital Object Identifier) A method of applying a persistent name to documents, publications and other resources on the Internet rather than using a URL, which can change over time. ) to ensure permanent links. Once the service is fully launched, more than three million articles across thousands of journals will be linked through CrossRef, and more than half a million more articles will be linked each year thereafter. Such linking will enhance the efficiency of browsing and reading the primary scientific and scholarly literature. It will enable readers to gain access to logically related articles with one or two clicks -- an objective widely accepted among researchers as a natural and necessary part of scientific and scholarly publishing in the digital age. For more information about CrossRef, visit http://www.crossref.org. |
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