I guess that it is time for a larger discussion of the way we collaborate with publishers on oww. (at the next sc meeting?) It could probably not hurt to see a demo of this working though, we could always link to scholar, cite-base and theirs. I can contact him we want this, ask to see a demo, and table the decision until our next meeting?
<br><br>John<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Julius Lucks</b> <<a href="mailto:lucks@fas.harvard.edu">lucks@fas.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">Sounds like they want us to drive a lot of users their way. I am not a big fan of Elsevier personally, and am not too keen on driving our users in their direction. The idea is neat though. Isn't Cite-Base somewhat of an open alternative? Perhaps we could do something similar with them?
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<div>On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Sri Kosuri wrote:</div><br></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="e" id="q_113684782abc34aa_3">Scopus (a project of Elsevier) has sent the following request. What do people think generally?
<br><br>Publishing Chairs: Care to follow this up?<br><br>Sri<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote"> From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Kersten, Fabian (ELS-AMS)</b> <<a href="mailto:F.Kersten@elsevier.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
F.Kersten@elsevier.com</a>><br>Date: Jun 25, 2007 5:19 AM<br>Subject: Integrate Scopus cited by counts on your platform <br>To: <a href="mailto:skosuri@mit.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
skosuri@mit.edu</a><br><br></span> <div> <br><p><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Dear Sri,</font></span> </p><p><span lang="en-us"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">I have found your contact details on the
<a href="http://openwetware.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">openwetware.org </a></font></span><span lang="en-gb"> <font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">website and would like to get in touch with you to see if you might be interested in a new service on your platform.
</font> <font face="Arial" size="2"> My name is </font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Fabian Kersten</font> <font face="Arial" size="2">and I am </font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">marketing</font>
<font face="Arial" size="2">manage </font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">r</font><font face="Arial" size="2"> for Scopus (</font></span><a><span lang="en-gb"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">www.scopus.com
</font></u></span></a><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Arial" size="2">).</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"></font> <font face="Arial" size="2">Scopus start</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">
ed</font><font face="Arial" size="2"> rolling out free Web service that allows </font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">you</font><font face="Arial" size="2"> to place highly accurate Cited-by counts on </font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">
your</font><font face="Arial" size="2"> site using the Scopus engine in April. I believe this service could be an interesting addition to your platform as it offers your users a way to assess the article in the context of the citations it has received.
</font> </span></p><p><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial" size="2">Both the precision (>99.2%) and the recall (97.8%) of the Scopus citation information are industry-leading. With all references from 15.000 journals included since 1996, linked references for all but historical (older than say 12 years) articles will be as complete as they can be. The Cited-by count is provided real time and will include a link to the bibliographic details on Scopus (
i.e. the list of articles that make up the Cited-by count). The Cited-by counts Web service is already available today for all publishers, but in April the service will be enhanced to great benefit to ensure that users that enter Scopus but are not subscribed to Scopus - are still able to see the bibliographic details on Scopus. More information is available in the attachment.
</font></span></p><p><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> <<3Publisher_integration.doc>> </font></span> <br><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial" size="2">If you are interested I would like to explore a possible collaboration between us. Are you the right person to have initial discussion with? If not, can you please refer
</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">me</font> <font face="Arial" size="2">to the most appropriate person within your organization? </font></span></p><p><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial" size="2">I look forward to hearing from you soon.
</font></span> </p><p><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Arial" size="2">Best regards,</font></span> <br><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Fabian</font></span> <br><span lang="en-gb"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2">
_______________________________________________</font></b></span> <br><span lang="en-gb"><b><font color="#336699" face="Verdana" size="2">Fabian Kersten</font><br> </b><font face="Verdana" size="2">Marketing Manager<br> </font>
<b><font color="#336699" face="Verdana" size="2">Scopus</font><font color="#0099cc" face="Verdana" size="2"></font><br> <br> </b><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span name="st">Elsevier</span> B.V. Radarweg 29,<br> 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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