Science Publishers to Collaborate
on Digital Citation Network
A group of 12 private and nonprofit publishers have announced plans that will make it easier for researchers to locate and obtain the text of footnoted articles through the Internet. According to a November 16 news release from Academic Press, one of the organizers, the network will offer hyperlinks from article citations in participating journals to the full text of the sources, even if they are located on another Web site. Access to the full text may require a password or a fee.
The group, which also includes John Wiley & Sons, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Nature, the American Institute of Physics, Blackwell, Elsevier, and Kluwer, have not yet settled on a name for the service.
Susan Spilka, a spokesperson for John Wiley, said that the publishers plan to label more than 3-million current journal articles with Digital Object Identifier tags that can be used to track the citations. They expect to launch the system in early 2000.
Posted November 22, 1999.
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