CrossRef Search

Abstract

This article features the CrossRef Search service launched by cross-publisher citation linking network CrossRef in partnership with Google search technologies in April 2004. The prototype is being used top solicit feedback from end-users, to investigate the value of free full-text, interdisciplinary search across publisher boundaries. CrossRef Search is an interdisciplinary, inter-publisher search tool currently available as a pilot service. The pilot allows users to search the full text of high quality journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, and other resources covering a range of scholarly research from numerous leading publishers. Although a good deal of published content is now indexed by Google independently of this new initiative, what makes CrossRef Search unique is that it provides a domain-restricted search. Through a special arrangement between Google and CrossRef, the service launches a typical Google search but filters the results set to the items from participating publishers, thereby reducing the noise produced by general Web searches and providing more targeted access to research material. As of November 2004, there are 29 publishers participating in CrossRef Search.