Thomspon [ISI] corals open access into single index
Information World Review - London,UK
By Mark Chillingworth 23 Nov 2005
http://www.iwr.co.uk/2146510
Excerpts:
Web Citation Index creates a global listing of institutional
repositories and open access articles
Thomson Scientific is releasing a single tool for searching and
accessing online open access content. The Web Citation Index (WCI)
from the abstracting and indexing (A&I) specialist will become part
of its ISI Web of Knowledge platform and connect together pre-print
articles, institutional repositories and open access (OA) journals...
At the heart of WCI is technology that crawls the internet searching
for research documents that are freely available. Once the software
has located the document it indexes it, locates the citations within
the document and automatically links these to the cited document. ...
"The goal is to index all repository material, but it has to conform
to scholarly standards," Pringle said, "It brings a consistent
resource for pre-prints are difficult to find and brings them into
professional research."
Pringle said the OA and institutional repository community
needed a serious index and search tool to make their content more
"discoverable". Although a shot in the arm for the OA community,
Pringle was quick to back traditional publishing models. "Peer
review journal literature continues to have an important future;
I don't see the repository movement calling that into question. This
is part of the process by which repositories are finding their way."
Received on Wed Nov 23 2005 - 19:07:01 GMT