SCIENTIFIC/SCHOLARLY PUBLISHERS FORM REFERENCE LINKING SERVICE.A group of scientific and scholarly publishers have formed Publishers International Linking Association (PILA; Burlington Burlington, town, Canada Burlington, town (1991 pop. 129,575), SE Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. First settled (1798) by Mohawk Loyalist Joseph Brandt, Burlington's economy was built on the shipment of wheat, lumber, and quarried rock by waterway. , MA) in order to operate CrossRef CrossRef is an official Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Registration Agency. It was launched in early 2000 as a cooperative effort among publishers to enable cross-publisher citation linking in online academic journals. , a collaborative reference linking service. The 22 initial members of PILA include John Wiley John Wiley may refer to:
British-born American physician who was the first woman to be awarded a medical doctorate in modern times (1849). Science, Academic Press, Elsevier Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has substantial operations in the UK, USA and elsewhere. Science, Kluwer Academic and Springer-Verlag. The service is expected to be operational by the end of March. Once it is fully operational, more than three million articles from thousands of journals will be linked through CrossRef and more than 500,000 articles will be added every year. Member publishers will be able to add reference links to all their online journals. Users of the journals will follow the links directly to the content with no visible CrossRef interface. PILA said the service will enable users 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 digial age." |
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