Long seen as the purview of Thomson ISI, citation tracking in scholarly journal literature is becoming an expected feature in digital collections of scholarly literature. Even Google Scholar offers a version. Elsevier’s Scopus service has long provided a “cited by” feature on its search results page, but the new Scopus Citation Tracker service expands the functionality greatly. At full power --that is, under the broadest licensed subscriptions-- Scopus covers 14,200 journals (including 531 open access journals) from more than 4,000 publishers supplying 27-plus million abstracted citations. Its citation analysis features reach back to 1966 for the life sciences and 1996 for all other fields. In contrast, Thomson ISI’s Web of Science (WoS) --again at full throttle-- reaches back to 1900 and supports even more sophisticated citation analysis. Interested enterprises should look to pay in the five- or even six-figure range. Neither service includes the cost of full-text delivery of content, but both will link to journal articles in full-text services to which libraries have separate licenses....Commenting on the general problem of “versioning” in a world of open access, institutional repositories, preprint servers, etc., [Amanda] Spiteri [director of marketing for Elsevier] said it was a problem for the whole industry. Jim Pringle, vice president of product development at Thomson Scientific, echoed her sentiments.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/23/2006 01:01:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
