CrossRef Blog

Did you know that the recently published 6th Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association now includes the recommendations that authors include appropriate CrossRef DOIs in their references?

Last week editors explored the implications in a series of blog posts, including a summary of the recommendation, a DOI primer, and a flow-chart of when to use DOIs.

CrossRef is interested in working with editors of other style manuals as they revisit their reference formats. We are exploring changing our own recommendations for displaying DOIs. Our preliminary thinking is that CrossRef DOIs should be displayed as clickable links to eliminate any confusion among users as to what they should do when they find one. Let us know your thoughts.

Posted by Carol Anne Meyer at 09:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We just came across this helpful video

http://tinyurl.com/doivideo

It was posted last year by Kansas State University Librarian Sara K. Kearns. It shows how researchers can use DOIs to locate the articles they need. She posted it in response to the American Psychological Association's (APA's) decision last year to include DOIs for electronic resources in their style guide. Nice work, Sara.

The video shows copying a DOI into Google to find its article. We would add that you can locate the article for any DOI by typing http://dx.doi.org in front of the DOI in your browser's address bar.

Posted by Carol Anne Meyer at 07:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

In the latest review from Peter's Digital Reference Shelf Peter Jacso reviews SpringerLink and includes a very positive mention of how CrossRef Forward Linking has been used in the site:

"I am particularly pleased with the fact that SpringerLink makes good use of the ever-growing CrossRef database to find documents which cite the ones you are looking at...Once again, the list of cited references (not just the citedness score) is available not only for subscribers, but also for plain vanilla users - which deserves my awe. As I am writing this, CrossRef has 28.3 million Digital Object Identifier (DOI) links which has great potential for getting trustworthy citedness data instead of the often senseless, much deflated citedness scores dispensed by Google Scholar..."

The example article that shows Forward Linking in action on SpringerLink is from Scientometrics - doi:10.1007/BF02129596. Look at the right side of the screen under "Referenced By".

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Posted by Ed Pentz at 09:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Interesting posting on DOIs by Carmen Drahl

Will DOI cure what ails me? http://blind-science.blogspot.com/2007/03/will-doi-cure-what-ails-me.html
By Carmen Drahl
Recently, some Elsevier journals changed their web and old links no longer worked. If I'd set those links to the DOI of the journal article, they'd still be intact. That reminds me; I need to change my research group's "Publications" ...
She Blinded Me with Science - http://blind-science.blogspot.com/index.html

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 12:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

With the addition of JSTOR content it appears that the oldest article in CrossRef is:

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 1, Jan. 1, 1769 - Jan. 1, 1771, pp. 293-300. doi:10.2307/1005040 URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1005040.

If anyone knows of any older content in CrossRef please let us know.

Posted by Ed Pentz at 06:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

BCReview noted in August that BioOne has started using the CrossRef Forward Linking service. BioOne has assigned DOIs retrospectively to older articles and implemented CrossRef Forward Linking.

For a good example go to this article - doi:10.1653/0015-4040(2002)085[0001:MASITP]2.0.CO;2 - and click on "Full Text" and then on the right hand side click on "See Articles Citing this Article" - there are few self-citations but there are a number of citations from other journals, including a Japanese journal. This is an excellent example of the value of CrossRef Forward Linking.

Posted by Ed Pentz at 04:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I'm happy to announce that we are starting to see links from references in books to books and book chapters. OUP's Oxford Scholarlship Online is now linking references to books and are picking up links to some World Bank books.

An example is in:
Swinnen, Johan F.M., and Scott Rozelle. From Marx and Mao to the Market - The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Transition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press. 23 June 106
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0199288917.001.0001>

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Posted by Ed Pentz at 06:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)