New service at BioOne

BioOne announces launch of Forward Linking on BioOne service

WASHINGTON, DC – BioOne® is pleased to announce the launch of Forward
Linking, a new expanded service on the BioOne website. BioOne recently
completed a retrospective assignment of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)
and deposit of those DOIs with the CrossRef® system for each full-text
item in the service. As part of this project, BioOne has also
implemented Forward Linking to other articles—both inside and outside of
BioOne—that reference the articles in the database. These combined
services of improved reference linking and forward linking will enhance
the discoverability and usability of articles in the BioOne service and
will improve the overall user experience for scholars accessing articles
on BioOne.

In principle, forward linking is similar to reference linking, however
rather than pointing to articles that were referenced or citations to
previous work, forward linking provides a link outward to articles,
published after the article currently being read, that have cited the
article the user had found. The link to articles citing a particular
article is available on each of the article full-text pages by clicking
on “See Articles Citing This Article” in the Contents box on the
right-hand of the article text screen.

This enhanced functionality is provided to publishers and users at no
charge. BioOne is absorbing the fees on behalf of participating
publishers for deposit and registration of the DOIs. In addition,
BioOne provides the setup and coordination fees for the forward linking
program centrally.

Management of the DOI service is provided by participation in CrossRef –
a non-profit industry organization, based in Lynnfield, MA, which
provides the infrastructure for assignment and coordination of reference
linking. For more information on CrossRef, please visit
www.crossref.org.

BioOne is a not-for-profit online aggregation of scholarly journals in
the biological, organismal and ecological sciences. Founded in 1999,
BioOne now serves more than 850 institutions and more than 8 million
scholars, students and researchers worldwide. For further information
on BioOne, please visit our website: http://www.bioone.org