The project's implementation was among the first examples of its sort first to be subjected to user testing and evaluation first to be based on distributed data, that is, data that is not owned by a single publisher nor managed at a single site. Full and unrestricted access for all users was permitted during the evaluation period to the end of May 1998. Following the project, the practice of citation linking is becoming more common among publishers of electronic journals.
Work continues among the collaborators in the project towards full-scale products and services.
Citation linking and the Open Journal of Cognitive Science Formally written scholarly papers typically contain references to other papers. When these papers are published on the Web these references can, in some cases, be linked directly to the cited source, or a version of it, an abstract say. We believe so. Links aid navigation between Web documents. In the Open Journal Project we went further, demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve cited papers, or information about those papers, faster and therefore more effectively than is possible in other forms.