STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of reference linking, a new service enabling its community of reviewers to have direct access to referenced articles published by Elsevier, directly from the manuscript they are reviewing.
Reference linking means that by clicking on the hyperlinks, listed alongside the referenced articles, reviewers are brought to the abstracts of those articles. Furthermore, depending on the reviewer's personal or their institute's subscription entitlements, reviewers can also link directly, via CrossRef's DOI service, through to the articles referenced in other publishers' journals. This functionality and the facilitating tools are integrated, seamless and accessible through Elsevier's submission and peer review editorial system (EES).
Elsevier's network of 7,000 journal editors and 500,000 reviewers using EES will have access to abstracts in Scopus and full text of referenced articles in ScienceDirect. Also, they will benefit from the functionality of these systems, such as searching for related articles, author and citation information. Reference linking will help reviewers to reduce the time spent for searching relevant information during the review process, ensuring a more accurate review process.
