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Thomson ISI and NEC Team Up to Index Web-based Scholarship

Further to Bernie Sloan's message of February 27th, see the Chronicle of
Higher Education piece on this same topic.  The posting is an extract from
the EDUCAUSE online newsletter, March 12, 2004.

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DATABASE TRACKS ACADEMIC REFERENCES ONLINE

Thomson ISI, which collects data on the use of academic work, said it will
begin compiling data for online scholarship in addition to that in print.
The new Web Citation Index will track online-only citations of scholarly
writing as well as references in printed material to online-only sources.
Statistics in Thomson ISI databases are generally regarded as highly
influential, especially in the sciences, for promotion and tenure
decisions. Though the Web Citation Index will be maintained separately
from the company's other databases, some observers said the new index is
likely to encourage scholars to publish online or to use preprint servers,
which are databases containing work that has not yet passed peer review.
Others commented that peer-reviewed journals will remain the primary
vehicle for scholarship and that the new index will not have a significant
impact on scholarly publishing.

Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 March 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/03/2004031204n.htm

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:35:12 EST
From: "Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>
To: "'liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu'" <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Subject: Thomson ISI and NEC Team Up to Index Web-based Scholarship

FYI...

Philadelphia, PA USA-London UK-Princeton, NJ February 25, 2004 - Today,
Thomson ISI and NEC Laboratories America (NEC) announced their
collaboration to create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary citation index
for Web-based scholarly resources. The new Web Citation IndexTM will
combine a suite of technologies developed by NEC, including "autonomous
citation indexing" tools from NEC's CiteSeer environment, with the
capabilities underlying ISI Web of KnowledgeSM. Thomson ISI editors will
carefully monitor the quality of this new resource to ensure all indexed
material meets the Thomson ISI high-quality standards.

More details at:

http://www.isinet.com/press/2004/8217120 

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu