CrossRef and DOIs : New Developments

Diaporama d\u27une intervention au 32e congrès LIBER qui s\u27est tenu à Rome du 17 au 20 juin 2003. Analyse des enjeux de l\u27identification durable des ressources en ligne, présentation du système Digital Object Identifier (DOI, identifiant d\u27objet numérique) et de l\u27association CrossRef dont la mission est de rendre plus facile l\u27identification et l\u27accès aux ressources scientifiques en ligne

Easily accessible content and linking

Presentation in the ICSTI 2004 Public Conference titled 'Technical and Economic Challenges of Scientific Information: (STM Content Access, Linking and Archiving)'. ICSTI Public Conference was hosted by The IEE at Savoy Place in London on May 17th 2004

CrossRef and DOIs: New Developments

Profound changes to scholarly communications have been taking place since the advent of the World Wide Web and changes are continuing. Publishers and librarians are facing a new generation of students, researchers and scientists. The Pew Internet and American Life Project The Internet goes to College (Jones, 2002)found that 73% of students use the Internet more than the library for information searching. The Survey also revealed a danger for publishers of scholarly journals - that of losing readers. To quote from the survey: “Many students are likely to use information found on search engines and various Web sites as research material ... and faculty often report concerns about the number of URLs included in research paper bibliographies and the decrease in citations from traditional scholarly sources.” In order to counter these trends, publishers and librarians must work together to make it easy for users to access authoritative scholarly sources online. This can be difficult to do since users' expectations of online journals have increased dramatically over the last 8 years and continue to increase. For most users these days content must be online and it must be linked. If it's not linked, it doesn't exist. Linking on the web works very well in conjunction with traditional references in journals. The practice of citing other articles has been around since the first journals appeared in the 17th century and it's a crucial part of the scientific process. So naturally, with online journals there is immense value in users being able to go to a cited item with one or two clicks. Another important trend is the development of the article economy - journal issues are becoming less important. Most publishers now post articles online, “ahead of print”, without volume, issue and page number, and for many journals the e-article is the article “of record”. Because of this trend and the need for reference links, uniquely identifying each article, creating standardized metadata and creating a system to link references are of critical importance for publishers

CrossRef and DOIs : New Developments

Diaporama d\u27une intervention au 32e congrès LIBER qui s\u27est tenu à Rome du 17 au 20 juin 2003. Analyse des enjeux de l\u27identification durable des ressources en ligne, présentation du système Digital Object Identifier (DOI, identifiant d\u27objet numérique) et de l\u27association CrossRef dont la mission est de rendre plus facile l\u27identification et l\u27accès aux ressources scientifiques en ligne

The UKSG TRANSFER Project: collaboration to improve access to content

The UKSG TRANSFER Code of Practice 2.01 was released in September 2008 with the goal of creating a set of voluntary industry best practices to ensure that journal transfers go smoothly and that users do not lose access to content when journals change ownership. Starting in April 2006, the UKSG TRANSFER Working Group undertook a lengthy process of analysing journal transfers and crafting a set of best practices to address the concerns of librarians, publishers, agents, societies and others. After much discussion and feedback, a concise, specific Code of Practice was developed. The Working Group decided to take a collaborative, positive approach with different stakeholders working together rather than focusing on prescriptive requirements with penalties attached which would have overly complicated the situation. The Code has seen good uptake and there are a number of ideas for how to take the work forward