Springer (after acquiring Kluwer Academic) has become the second largest publisher of scientific, technical and medical journals, and has done an impressive job in digitizing the back issues of most of Springer and Kluwer journals back to their first issue. Its software —provided by Metapress which recently came out of a long period of inertia with this nifty release— is exemplary in many regards, and has only a few deficiencies.
SpringerLink is the flagship application among the Metapress clients, and also among the digital collections of the most avant guard publishers. It is to be noted that SpringerLink makes good use of the ever-increasing CrossRef database to inform the users (even the non-subscribers) how many times a paper was cited in journals published by CrossRef members. It is not as sophisticated as the use of CrossRef for the same purpose in the splendid PROLA archive of the American Physical Society, but it is an important example for other publishers that will also use CrossRef to offer search options based on cited and citing references.
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