Back in February I blogged a powerful new tool built by Inera for CrossRef. Enter a bibliographic citation and it returns the DOI, at least when the cited work has a DOI. Ed Pentz, Executive Director of CrossRef, says that the tool matches citations to DOIs for 21.6 million items.
Back in February, the service was only available to CrossRef members, and my blog posting included a plea to open it up to everyone. Today CrossRef has done just that. (The web form has a place to enter "member name" but just leave it blank.) It's even more powerful than the last version. For example, paste in series of citations, and it will return a series of DOIs.
Kudos to CrossRef for opening this up.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/06/2006 03:44:00 PM.
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.