| Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced the introduction of
a free reference-linking service for scientific publishers that adds links
from references in scientific articles to the world’s largest sci-tech
databases.
“We are pleased to provide this new reference linking free of charge
to the scientific community,” said CAS director Robert Massie. “As stewards
of the world’s largest repository of bibliographic information in chemistry
and related sciences, we see this service as aligned with our mission to
facilitate scientific discourse. We are serving both the world research
community and the primary publishing community, with which we have cooperated
for nearly a century.”
The links allow users to click on references within the Web version
of the publishers’ journals and, for no additional charge, continue their
research in the CAS or MEDLINE databases by viewing records for the cited
articles. From there, researchers can link directly to the full-text electronic
document, if it’s from one of the more than 100 participating ChemPort
publishers.
ACS Publications joined CAS in the reference linking pilot service in
1999. Other publishers now employing reference linking in ChemPort are
Academic Press/IDEAL, the American Institute of Physics, the Institute
of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Springer-Verlag. Also participating
is CatchWord, a leading independent hosting service that currently hosts
58 scholarly and academic publishers.
The new reference-linking capability will offer scientists both free
and fee-based options, including the following:
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The ability to view abstracts from CAS or other participating database
producers
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Direct links from references to articles of participating ChemPort publishers
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The ability to link to other documents cited in the referenced article
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A capability to purchase articles, including a credit card payment option
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The opportunity to continue their research by searching CAS databases
The ChemPort Connection is incorporated into all CAS electronic search
service interfaces, including STN Express, STN Easy, STN on the Web, SciFinder,
SciFinder Scholar, and CA on CD. Researchers identifying relevant articles
or patents by searching CAS databases and others on the STN International
network (http://www.cas.org/stn.html)
can immediately link from the database record to the associated full-text
document on the Web sites of participating journal publishers or patent
offices for no additional charge.
Source: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, OH, 614/447-3600; http://www.cas.org. |
