Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons Inc., US, has announced that it is a participant in the CrossMark service from CrossRef. CrossRef is a multi-publisher initiative to provide a standard way for readers to identify and locate the publisher-maintained version of a piece of content.
With the increase of online discoverability of different versions of a paper, it can be difficult for readers to identify what version of a paper they are looking at – it can be the submitted version, the accepted version, the published version, or it can be enhanced, amended, corrected, updated, withdrawn and even retracted. There can be many versions of a scholarly article, leading to uncertainty over what constitutes the version of record; the CrossMark logo on the publishers' version will always alert readers to changes to a paper since its original publication.
The programme is currently in its pilot phase, and is due for launch early next year. Wiley-Blackwell is one of the five pilot publishers who have implemented the system on live content. Once in place, clicking on the CrossMark logo will tell a reader the current status of a document and may also give the reader additional publication record information about the document. CrossMark will also work on PDF content that users have downloaded to their machines or devices.
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