STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and EarthChem, a portal facilitating discovery and accessibility of a consortium of databases, have implemented two-way linking between their respective Earth Sciences content.
Elsevier-published research articles from 32 journals, hosted on SciVerse ScienceDirect will be automatically linked to the corresponding research datasets in the EarthChem portal, and vice versa, starting with the titles Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Chemical Geology, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, and Lithos. The EarthChem portal provides access to data from federated community databases, namely PetDB, MetPetDB, SedDB, NAVDAT, and GEOROC, as well as unpublished data from the USGS and the GANSEKI database of the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC.
Elsevier claims to be the first publisher to offer direct linking from a scientific article to an EarthChem dataset. The initiative is the latest output of the Article of the Future project, the publisher's ongoing commitment to improve the reader experience in all areas of online article presentation, enriched and value-added content, and interoperability with external databases. Elsevier started a similar collaboration with the introduction in February 2010 of reciprocal linking between Elsevier and PANGAEA, and is continually looking to collaborate with other relevant organisations.
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