The identifier embedded in the citation may be old and out of date. The cited object may be behind a firewall or available only through an online service which uses purely internal identifiers. The purpose of the workshop on linkage from citations to electronic journal literature is to bring together publishers, librarians, abstracting and indexing services, repositories, vendors of information services, and end users, in order to open a dialog on the issues. The workshop will begin with prepared statements of the problem from the perspectives of the library, publisher, abstracting and indexing service, and end user. This will be followed by presentations of some current approaches to linking taken by selected vendors and organizations.
Participants can explore emerging solutions in the light of the requirements of various communities.
This workshop will attempt to build a common awareness of a broad range of needs and to improve understanding of the strengths and limitations of current approaches. In addition, the workshop will seek to identify and stimulate actions needed to improve the facilities for linking citations and digital objects in the digital environment. In order to download or print PDF versions of documents, you need to have Acrobat Reader installed. If you don't have Acrobat Reader installed, download the Acrobat Installer from Adobe's Acrobat web page and then install the Acrobat Reader before continuing. The following publications provide background on this topic.