Towards universal linking for electronic jounrnals

Hitchcock, Steve; Quek, F.; Carr, Leslie; Hall, Wendy; Witbrock, Andrew; Tarr, Ian

doi:10.1080/00987913.1998.10764426

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“…Nonetheless, based solely upon the functional similarity of hyperlinks and citations, both of which provide links between two documents, there has been a general tendency to assume that hyperlinks in scholarly environments are equivalent to citations (Cameron, 1997; Harnad, 1992; Jögensen & Jögensen, 1991; Small, 1995). For example, Hitchcock et al (1998, p. 21) state that “as far as online journals are concerned, the first application of links on a large scale extends a convention that is fundamental to the modern academic journal: the use of citations.” Under this assumption, moreover, a number of studies have already attempted to apply the techniques of analysis developed for citations to the analysis of hyperlinks on Web pages to evaluate Web pages or to map scholarly networks (Almind & Ingwersen, 1997; Kuster, 1996; Larson, 1996). In the absence of any knowledge about the nature, norms, and values of hyperlinks in scholarly electronic environments, how can we make sense of data derived from the application of citation analysis techniques to the analysis of hyperlinks?…”

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Motivations for hyperlinking in scholarly electronic articles: A qualitative study

Kim

2000

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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The primary purpose of the study was to identify motivations for hyperlinking in scholarly electronic articles. Fifteen Indiana University faculty and graduate students who had published at least one scholarly electronic article containing at least one external hyperlink were surveyed. Through a series of qualitative interviews, 19 different hyperlinking motivations, classified into the three motivational groups—scholarly, social, and technological—along the dimensional ranges of their properties, were identified. The vast majority of the hyperlinks were attributed to more than one motivation by the authors. The empirical findings of the study demonstrated that scholars use hyperlinks for a variety of purposes, and that their hyperlinking behavior frequently results from a complex interplay of motivations.

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Motivations for hyperlinking in scholarly electronic articles: A qualitative study

Kim

2000

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Developing services for open eprint archives

Hitchcock

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Jiao

et al. 2000

Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries

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The rapid growth of scholarly information resources available in electronic form and their organisation by digital libraries is proving fertile ground for the development of sophisticated new services, of which citation linking will be one indispensable example. Many new projects, partnerships and commercial agreements have been announced to build citation linking applications. This paper describes the Open Citation (OpCit) project, which will focus on linking papers held in freely accessible eprint archives such as the Los Alamos physics archives and other distributed archives, and which will build on the work of the Open Archives initiative to make the data held in such archives available to compliant services. The paper emphasises the work of the project in the context of emerging digital library information environments, explores how a range of new linking tools might be combined and identifies ways in which different linking applications might converge. Some early results of linked pages from the OpCit project are reported.

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Carr

1999

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Towards universal linking for electronic jounrnals

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Motivations for hyperlinking in scholarly electronic articles: A qualitative study

Motivations for hyperlinking in scholarly electronic articles: A qualitative study

Developing services for open eprint archives

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