[Ref-Links] Citeseer

[Eric Hellman <eric@hellman.net>]

Here's a rather interesting, grass-roots approach to citation indexing that
recipients of this list may be unaware of.


http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs
Description from web-site:
Autonomous Citation Indexing (ACI) automates the construction of citation
indexes (similar to the Science Citation Index). ACI provides many
advantages.


Summary of Autonomous Citation Indexing (ACI)
Citation context	ACI groups together the context of citations to a
given article, allowing researchers to easily see what is being said and
why the article was cited. Benefits for both literature search and
evaluation.

Lower cost, wider availability	ACI is completely autonomous - no manual
effort is required. This should result in lower cost and wider availability.

Broader coverage	Because no manual effort is required, there are few
barriers to indexing a broader range of literature, compared to indexes
like the Science Citation Index that require manual effort.

More timely feedback	Conference papers, technical reports, and preprints
can be indexed, providing far more timely feedback in many cases (often
such publications appear far in advance of corresponding journal
publications).

Freely available	We plan to make our implementation of ACI freely
available. Several orgnizations have already expressed interest in
providing an index within their domain, or in using CiteSeer within their
own digital libraries.

CiteSeer is a scientific digital library system that implements ACI.
CiteSeer is freely available.


Eric Hellman
Openly Informatics, Inc.
http://www.openly.com/           Tools for 21st Century Scholarly Publishing

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