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An Open Journal of Cognitive Science
AN EXPERIMENTAL SERVICE |
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The full version of this Open Journal is now CLOSED but we can
offer a specially prepared demonstrator
of citation linking based on the original version.
The work demonstrated the principle and process of large-scale citation
linking, and involved collaboration between the Open
Journal Project, The Institute for
Scientific Information, and two full-text electronic journals edited
by Professor Stevan Harnad.
The project's implementation was
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among the first examples of its sort
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first to be subjected to user testing and evaluation
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first to be based on distributed data, that is, data that is not
owned by a single publisher nor managed at a single site.
Full and unrestricted access for all users was permitted during the evaluation
period to the end of May 1998.
Following the project, the practice of citation linking is becoming
more common among publishers of electronic journals.
Work continues among the collaborators in the project towards full-scale
products and services. To find out more you can contact:
The Open Journal project was funded in the UK by the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding
Councils, as part of its Electronic
Libraries (eLib) Programme.
Citation linking and the Open Journal of Cognitive Science
Formally written scholarly papers typically contain references to other
papers. When these papers are published on the Web these references can,
in some cases, be linked directly to the cited source, or a version of
it, an abstract say. Is this useful? We believe so. Links aid navigation
between Web documents. In the Open Journal Project we went further, demonstrating
that it is possible to retrieve cited papers, or information about those
papers, faster and therefore more effectively than is possible in other
forms. In addition, the literature can be linked 'forward' in time, not
just backward. In other words, links give you a means to manage your view
of the literature.
The Open Journal of Cognitive Science was set up to demonstrate citation
linking by interlinking references in two journals - Psycoloquy
and Behavioral and Brain Sciences - with a database of abstracts
provided by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) to cover cognitive
science-related publications from 1991-1996. The service linked citations
in the body of a text to the references at the end of an article; and,
where possible within the date range of the resources provided, the reference
list was linked to ISI records, with abstracts where available. Each record
in the ISI database has its own associated references, which were also
linked where possible. You could also discover what later articles have
cited any given abstracted paper. This may become clearer if you try the
specially prepared demonstrator of citation linking based on the original
Open Journal.
References
Hitchcock, S., L. Carr, W. Hall, S. Harris, S. Probets, D. Evans and
D. Brailsford, 1998, Linking
Electronic Journals: Lessons from the Open Journal Project. D-Lib
Magazine, December
Hitchcock, S., R. Kimberley, S. Harris, L. Carr and W. Hall,
1998, Webs of Research:
Putting the User in Control. IRISS'98, Internet Research and Information
for Social Scientists, Bristol, UK, March
Hitchcock, S., L. Carr, S. Harris, J. M. N. Hey and W. Hall,
1997, Citation Linking:
Improving Access to Online Journals. Second ACM International Conference
on Digital Libraries, Philadelphia, USA, July, pp. 115-122
This page revised 3rd February 1999
maintained by Steve Hitchcock
