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Springer & CrossRef. CrossRef Members Meeting November 14, 2000 Howard Ratner. http://link.springer-ny.com http://link.springer.de. LINK – Quick Overview. Springer e-product service Mirror Sites: NY & Heidelberg Full text delivery 480+ Journals 8+ Book Series
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Springer & CrossRef CrossRef Members Meeting November 14, 2000 Howard Ratner http://link.springer-ny.com http://link.springer.de
LINK – Quick Overview • Springer e-product service • Mirror Sites: NY & Heidelberg • Full text delivery • 480+ Journals • 8+ Book Series • Electronic Supplementary Materials • Online First (article-based publishing) • Verity Search – Easy, Expert, DOI • Alerting Services • Reference Links
Connections to LINK • Agencies / Aggregators • Abstracting & Indexing Services • Document Delivery Services • Hosts • LINK Search • Portals • Search Engines (AltaVista, Google, Yahoo) • Publishers / CrossRef
Reference Links from LINK • LINK journals • PubMed • CAS ChemPort • AMS Math Reviews • Infotrieve (pending) • OSTI PubScience (pending) • Zentralblatt MATH (pending) • 60+ publishers – CrossRef Extensible Reference Linking Database!
LINK Reference Links • Life Science & Medical HTML journals link-enabled to PubMed since 1997 • Astronomy & Astrophysics journal linksto NASA in 1998 • Life Science & Medical HTML journals added CrossRef links in 2000 • Link-enable PDF-only journals with HTML reference sections in 2001
Springer & CrossRef • Chair of CrossRef proof-of-concept prototype: DOI-X (1998-1999) • Board Member • Founding Member • Technical Working Group Member
Springer CrossRef Metadata Deposits • Over 107,000 records deposited • All LINK journals • Extraction / Processing / Registration scripts run by Digital Asset Center • Registers metadata in CrossRef, PubMed, etc. • DOIs registered for all articles
Metadata Deposits Production SGML Article Header Metadata Digital Asset Center (DAC) Transformation Engine CrossRefMetadata Format PubMed Metadata Format CrossRef Quality Check PubMed
New Springer Reference Linking • Current: Static reference linking • Identifiers queried and inserted only once -- at the time of online publication • Future: SVRef - Dynamic reference linking • Identifiers are updated/maintained in database • Linked reference sections generated on the fly • Multiple link targets: CrossRef, PubMed, CAS, Zentralblatt, AMS, etc.
Identifier Lookup Production XML Tails Data (Reference Section) Digital Asset Center (DAC) SVRef Database CrossRefQuery Format PubMed Query Format Identifiers DOI/PMID CrossRef PubMed
1. User Gets Article 2. User Clicks “References” Link 3. Linked Reference Section - generated dynamically 4. User Follows Links Link Resolution – SVRef System LINK System SVRef Database End User Target Article
Conclusions • CrossRef/IDF • Improve 10%-30% CrossRef match rate • DOIs need to address mirror sites • Better error reporting • Springer • Committed to reference linking • Consider publishing more legacy issues • Consider more document delivery options • Strengthen Digital Asset Center • Dynamic Reference Linking
Contacts Howard Ratner hratner@springer-ny.com Richard Everett everett@springer.de