November 26, 1999
Publishers of On-Line Journals Plan to Link Millions of Science Footnotes
A coalition of 12 scientific-journal publishers has begun work on a system that could ease research by interlinking millions of on-line journal articles.
The service would allow a researcher, while reading a journal article, to click on a footnote and immediately read the abstract or full text of a cited article, even if it appeared in a competing journal. The service's debut is scheduled for early next year.
"This cuts out quite a number of steps,"
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