CrossRef and its partner Atypon have added forward linking to the basic CrossRef linking service. From the June 8 press release: "In addition to using CrossRef to create outbound links from their references, CrossRef member publishers can now retrieve 'cited-by' links -- links to other articles that cite their content. This new service is being offered as an optional tool to allow CrossRef members to display cited-by links in the primary content that they publish....As part of the same functionality powered by Atypon, CrossRef is also offering a new Forward-Match feature that eliminates the need for users to query CrossRef repeatedly for citations that do not initially return a match. When a query is marked to enable alerts, the CrossRef system automatically sends an email containing the matched results once the relevant content gets registered in CrossRef."
(PS: Forward linking can give us a new window on impact by helping us track the articles that link to a given article. It can also mitigate what I've called the many-copy problem created by OA. If there are many copies of a given OA article around the net, each one absorbing some previously unknown percentage of the user traffic, then forward linking can help us measure their relative prominence, by links if not by downloads or other parameters. Unfortunately, the same informality that leads to the proliferation of copies will lead most copyists to work outside CrossRef.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/20/2004 11:13:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
