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SIAM Selects AIP as its CrossRef AgentFor immediate release Melville, NY, August 1, 2003 - The American Institute of Physics announced that it has been chosen by SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) to be its agent in its dealings with CrossRef. CrossRef is the collaborative reference-linking service that acts as a type of digital switchboard, effecting links through Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). At present, more than eight million articles from over 8,100 journals are linked through CrossRef. "As a founding member of CrossRef, we welcome the opportunity to act as SIAM's technical contact and to be their interface with this ambitious citation linking service," said Tim Ingoldsby, AIP's Director of Business Development. "The formatting of metadata submitted to CrossRef must follow very strict guidelines. Our present capabilities place us in an excellent position to provide the required XML-compliant files for SIAM, and indeed for any publisher, regardless of whether their journals are hosted on our online platform." AIP will receive header files from SIAM and transform them into CrossRef-compliant XML files. AIP will then send the articles to CrossRef, registering the metadata about the article, the DOI value assigned to each article, and the URL that will direct other publishers to SIAM when they link to the article. AIP will also receive from SIAM the reference sections of each article, parse the references, and send queries to the CrossRef metadata database to obtain the DOI values that will allow the reference citations to link out to other publishers. In addition, AIP will cache all retrieved citations so that future retrievals (when SIAM publishes another article citing the same work) will not incur additional charges. "We are very pleased with the work that AIP has done on our behalf for the CrossRef project," said Mary Rose Muccie, Journals Publisher of SIAM. "It's as if a switch was thrown and suddenly many thousands more researchers worldwide can now seamlessly link to our online content." Ms. Muccie went on to say, "Since it's not the first time we've worked together, we're hardly surprised at the high quality of the work and service that AIP provides. The special programs they wrote to incorporate the SIAM Journal on Computing into the Virtual Journal of Quantum Information allowed our journal to reach a whole new audience." SIAM strives to ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities by advancing the application of mathematics and computational science to engineering, industry, science, and society. SIAM publishes twelve peer-reviewed research journals, including the all-electronic multimedia SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, SIAM Review, Theory of Probability and Its Applications (a Russian translation journal), SIAM News, and approximately 25 books per year. The American Institute of Physics 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 & Technology Society, The Society of Rheology, The Electrochemical Society, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, American Association of Physics Teachers, American Society of Civil Engineers, ASME International, and SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, as well as AIP's own journals and conference proceedings. For additional information, contact: |
