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Cross-referencing between ProQuest CSA (Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts) and Scopus, available since 2007, allowing reciprocal
searching, linking and de-duplicating of 4500 CSA titles in Arts &
Humanities and Social Sciences and 4500 Scopus titles in Natural
Sciences and Business & Economics.
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This fills a noticeable gap for
Scopus in Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences coverage.
The announcement of Thomson Reuters Links Article Match
Retrieval Service in 2009, which allows subscribers to Web of
Science or Journal Citation Reports (JCR) to gain easier access to
data, such as citation counts, in order to enhance institutional
repositories, etc. Subscribers to JCR can use this service to retrieve
links to the record for a given journal,
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allowing a real-time
lookup of bibliographic metadata such as digital object identifier
(DOI), author, source title, etc., against the Web of Science
database. If a match is found, the service will return times cited
information as well as links to view the full record, related records
page, or citing articles page in Web of Science.
The further announcement in 2009 that Serials Solutions' Summon
Service will feature Web of Science citing references.
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However, in 1997 Cameron suggested an alternative to the subscription
database, where
[o]ne approach towards the development of a universal (or semi-
universal) citation database would be the establishment of a consortium
of universities, academic societies and research library associations
devoted to the purpose. . . . A universal citation database would have
considerable value as a tool for both literature research and the
evaluation of scholarly work and hence could act as a strong catalyst for
overall reform in scholarly communication. . . . Indeed, a net savings
may be achieved by rational and integrated reallocation of existing
resources presently devoted to bibliography preparation, curriculum
vitae maintenance and literature indexing.
(Cameron, 1997)
Canós et al. (2009) take this research a stage further by suggesting that
citation data should be considered part of the scientific community's
heritage, and that current technology is available to allow the 'existence
of a global, community-maintained citation registry, generated via the
