Re: [Ref-Links] IDEAL Links

[Mark Doyle <doyle@aps.org>]

Greetings,

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, tony_hammond@harcourtbrace.com wrote:

> IDEAL does indeed provide for linking to different journal components:
> volume, issue (TOC), abstract, etc. What we do not provide for is direct
> linking to full text. This decision was made for sound commercial reasons.
> We want users to be aware that they have entered our service. At the
> article level we therefore provide an intermediate reponse page which
> contains links to the PDF, etc.

The American Physical Society's position is very similar. We feel strongly  
that we want links to bring people to our wrapper and not the full-text or  
any other deliverable. This is to preserve the "Phys. Rev." brand, to offer  
users a choice of download options that changes with time, and extra  
services such as links to comments, errata, related papers, references,  
citations, etc. Part of the value of Phys. Rev. is the place of an article  
in the collection. Being able to jump back up to the TOC or to move  
horizontally to the abstracts of adjacent articles allows for at least a  
partial recreation of the serendipidity that one often encounters when  
flipping through a journal. Commerical reasons aren't the only one -- there  
are good reasons for the user to be able see from where the article comes.

Regards,
Mark

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