June 5, 2000. CrossRef is now well on its way to becoming the comprehensive source for linking journal articles. Mr. Pentz reported that as of today, ten of the member publishers have submitted more than 1.3 million article records in about 2,700 journals to CrossRef's Metadata Database. In the coming weeks and months, a constantly increasing number of records will be submitted and live reference links will appear. According to Mr. Pentz, eleven publishers have recently joined CrossRef, bringing the current total to 33 member publishers.
Publishers control access to their content.
Once the service is fully launched, more than three million articles across thousands of journals will be linked through CrossRef, and more than half a million more articles will be linked each year thereafter. Such linking will enhance the efficiency of browsing and reading the primary scientific and scholarly literature. It will enable readers to gain access to logically related articles with one or two clicks - an objective widely accepted among researchers as a natural and necessary part of scientific and scholarly publishing in the digital age. If you require any further information, please contact John Strange , or visit the CrossRef website .