CrossRef Launches Pilot Program of CrossRef Search, Powered By Google.Business Editors LYNNFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2004 New Initiative Enables Cross-Publisher, Full-Text Searches A search that compares every word in a document, as opposed to searching an abstract or a set of keywords associated with the document. Word processors and text editors contain full-text search functions that let you find a word or phrase anywhere in the document. of the Latest Medical and Scholarly Research CrossRef(TM) announced today a new initiative that enables users to search the full text of high-quality, peer-reviewed journal peer-reviewed journal Refereed journal Academia A professional journal that only publishes articles subjected to a rigorous peer validity review process. Cf Throwaway journal. articles, conference proceedings, and other resources covering the full spectrum of scholarly research from nine leading publishers. Called CrossRef Search, this new pilot program utilizes the collaborative environment of CrossRef, the reference-linking service for scholarly publishing, and Google(TM) search technologies. "CrossRef is very excited to work with Google on this pilot program. Researchers, scientists and librarians should find CrossRef Search a valuable search tool," said Ed Pentz, executive director of CrossRef. "Now, researchers and students interested in mining published scholarship have immediate access to targeted, interdisciplinary and cross-publisher search on full text using the powerful and familiar Google technology," Mr. Pentz continued. "CrossRef Search, like CrossRef itself, breaks down barriers between publishers on behalf of research and library communities." CrossRef Search is available to all users, free of charge, on the websites of participating publishers, and encompasses current journal issues as well as back files. The results are delivered from the regular Google index but filter out everything except the participating publishers' content, and will link to the content on publishers' websites via DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers
A digital object identifier (or DOI) is a permanent identifier given to a document, which is not related to its current location. ) or regular URLs. CrossRef itself doesn't host any content or perform searches - CrossRef works behind the scenes with Google to facilitate the crawling of content on publishers' sites and sets the policies and guidelines governing publisher participation in the initiative. As well as enabling CrossRef Search, the partnership with Google also means that full-text content from the publishers is also referenced by the main Google.com index in its more general searches. Participating publishers, with links to the CrossRef Search pages, are: -- American Physical Society The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the world's second largest organization of physicists. The Society publishes more than a dozen science journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than twenty science (http://prola.aps.org/xrs.html) -- Annual Reviews (http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/search/external) -- Association for Computing Machinery See ACM. Association for Computing Machinery - Association for Computing (http://portal.acm.org/xrs.cfm) -- Blackwell Publishing (http://www.blackwellsynergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=show Search&type=external) (Due to the length of this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , it may be necessary to copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field. You may also need to remove an extra space in the URL if one exists.) -- Institute of Physics Publishing (http://www.iop.org/EJ/search) -- International Union of Crystallography The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is a member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and exists to serve the world community of crystallographers. See also X-ray crystallography Crystallography External links (http://journals.iucr.org/ --click "search" and scroll down the page) -- 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. (http://www.nature.com/dynasearch/app/dynasearch.taf) -- Oxford University Press (http://hmg.oupjournals.org/search.dtl -- each journal's search page includes a link) -- John Wiley John Wiley may refer to:
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/crossref.html) The CrossRef Search pilot will run through 2004 to evaluate functionality and to gather feedback from scientists, scholars and librarians for the purpose of fine-tuning the program. Participating publishers are also investigating how DOIs can be used to improve indexing of content and enable persistent links See hot link. from search results to the full text of content at publishers' sites. CrossRef is also in discussion with other search engines. About CrossRef CrossRef is an independent membership association (currently it has 300 members), founded and directed by publishers. Its general mission is to facilitate access to published scholarship through collaborative technologies. Specifically, CrossRef operates a cross-publisher citation linking system that enables a researcher to click on a reference citation in a journal on one publisher's platform and link to the cited article at another publisher's platform. In this way, CrossRef functions as a sort of digital switchboard. It holds no full text content, but rather effects linkages through DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers), which are tagged to article metadata supplied by the participating publishers. A 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. allows for persistent linking, because once material has been given a DOI it never changes, unlike a URL which becomes obsolete when it is moved. The end result is an efficient, scalable linking system. More information about CrossRef is available at http://www.crossref.org. |
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