Towards Universal Linking for Electronic Journals

Hitchcock, S. M., Quek, F., Carr, L. A., Hall, W., Witbrock, A. and Tarr, I. (1998) Towards Universal Linking for Electronic Journals. Serials Review, 24 (1). 21--33. Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Reference lists are an important facet of the modern academic journal. This form of 'hyperlinking' becomes enormously more powerful when translated to the World Wide Web, both in terms of the speed of link following and in the number of linked documents that can be made accessible. Electronic Press Ltd (EP), one of the first commercial publishers to commit to electronic publishing on the Web, plans to extend the practice of citation linking, aiming to link a document not just to a cited source but to all other documents that contain relevant information. Relevance in this case is defined as all referring, or referred to, documents. The paper discusses EP?s approach to link creation on this scale, which is based on an internalised system. One way of extending this approach is to support link creation as well as link following on a distributed network such as the Web. The Open Journal Project has built some first demonstrations, which are outlined in then paper. The convergence between these two approaches suggests some important new motivations for online journal publishing. Some of these features will eventually transform journal usage.

Item Type:	Article
Creator/Authors:	Steve M. Hitchcock F. Quek Les A. Carr Wendy Hall A. Witbrock I. Tarr
Research Group:	Old ECS Groups > Science and Engineering of Natural Systems Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Date:	1998
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Citations:	Google Scholar: 18
ID Code:	711
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2011 10:22
Deposited On:	26 Oct 1999 by Michaelides, Danius

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