--New Initiative Enables Cross-Publisher, Full-Text Searches of the
Latest Medical and Scholarly Research--
Lynnfield, MA - April 28, 2004 - CrossRef announced today a new
initiative that enables users to search the full text of high-quality,
peer-reviewed 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, additional search tool," said Mr. Pentz. "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) 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 http://prola.aps.org/xrs.html
* Annual Reviews http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/search/external
* Association for Computing Machinery http://portal.acm.org/xrs.cfm
* Blackwell Publishing
http://www.blackwellsynergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=showSearch&type=e
xternal
* Institute of Physics Publishing http://www.iop.org/EJ/search
* International Union of Crystallography http://journals.iucr.org/
(click "search" and scroll down the page)
* Nature 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 & Sons, Inc.
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 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 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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