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Linksmith provides more than a million additional links to users of AIP's Online Journal Publishing ServicesMELVILLE, NY, OCTOBER 24, 2001 AIP today announced the installation of its new reference-link service, LinkSmith, with the immediate effect of quadrupling the number of journals to which users of AIP's Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS) can link. The OJPS (www.ojps.org) is the online home of more than 100 journals from 16 science and engineering societies. With LinkSmith in place, AIP is able to take full advantage of its participation in CrossRef (www.crossref.org) and offer links to an additional 4,000 journals. OJPS users can now link to virtually the entire corpus of physics literature published by IEEE, IEE, Nature, Academic Press, Springer-Verlag, Oxford University Press, John Wiley and Sons, and Cambridge University Press. This is in addition to links already in place to 1250 journals from IOP Publishing, Elsevier Science, and other publishers. Users can link as well to a number of bibliographic databases, such as INSPEC, MEDLINE, ChemPort Connection, and Web of Science. (Web of Science links will appear in another month or two.) Through CrossRef, a researcher clicking on a reference will be connected to a page on the source publisher's website showing a full bibliographical citation of the article, and, in most cases, an abstract. Subscribers will generally have access to the full text, while others will receive information on access via subscription, document delivery, or pay-per-view. One important change that users of AIP's OJPS will notice is the ability to link to every issue of the Physical Review back to 1893, through the American Physical Society's PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) database. This addition alone provides hundreds of thousands of new links. Other visible changes include links to Chemical Abstracts' ChemPort Connection for references in The Journal of Chemical Physics and the addition of links to the backfiles of other publishers. LinkSmith represents a complete redesign of AIP's reference linking infrastructure. The new design makes maintenance of both the programs and the linking data much easier and faster. All extant links have been re-checked using the new and improved code, a process that has also corrected errors and added missing links. Adding and querying new linking systems is also much simpler than before. The new LinkSmith software also provides added flexibility for integrating future improvements. Initiatives now in the planning stage that will build on the LinkSmith foundation include improved statistical reporting on inbound and outbound traffic for publishers hosted on the OJPS and greater support for e-commerce activities. Replacement of static linking in HTML full text with a more dynamic linking capability is planned, as well. THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (www.aip.org) is a not-for-profit corporation chartered in 1931 to provide publishing and distribution services for scientific and technical societies. Its Online Journal Publishing Service currently hosts e-journals of the American Physical Society, AVS The Science and Technology Society, Biomedical Engineering Society, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, American Association of Physics Teachers, Acoustical Society of America, SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, Electrochemical Society, The Society of Rheology, American Society of Civil Engineers, ASME International, American College of Medical Physics, JCPDS-International Centre for Diffraction Data, and MAIK/Nauka (the commercial publishing arm of the Russian Academy of Sciences), as well as AIP's own publications. For further information, contact: |
