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Weekly News Digest
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February 14, 2008 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today. For other up-to-the-minute news, check out ITI’s Twitter account: @ITINewsBreaks.
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CrossRef Launches Free Citation Look-Up Tool for Bloggers
CrossRef (www.crossref.org) announced that it has launched the beta version of a new plug-in that allows bloggers to look up and insert DOI-enabled citations (Digital Object Identifier) in the course of authoring a blog. The plug-in, which is available for download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossref-cite, allows the blogger to use a widget-based interface to search CrossRef metadata using citations or partial citations. The results of the search, with multiple hits, are displayed, and the author can then either click on a hit to follow the DOI to the publisher’s site or click on an icon next to the hit to insert the citation into a blog entry (as either a full citation or as a short op. cit.).At present, the CrossRef plug-in is available for the WordPress platform; a Moveable Type version is under development. The tool is designed with the bulk of the functionality contained in a shared back end hosted at CrossRef, making the plug-in GUI readily portable to other blogging and authoring platforms. CrossRef is a nonprofit membership association founded and directed by publishers. Its mission is to enable easy identification and use of trustworthy electronic content by promoting the cooperative development and application of a sustainable infrastructure. CrossRef operates a cross-publisher citation linking system, and it is the official DOI name registration agency for scholarly and professional content. Source: CrossRef
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