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crln-22135	Pentz, Ed	CrossRef: The missing link	2001	6	.pdf	application/pdf	3129	128	59	C re a tin g and lin k in g to DOIs For participating publishers, CrossRef offers three main services: the depositing of article m etadata in the CrossRef database, the sub­ mission o f the references in those articles for A b o u t th e ed ito rs Ivy Anderson is coordinator for Digital Acquisitions at Harvard University, e-mail: ivy_anderson@harvard.edu; Gail McMillan is director o f Digital Library a n d Archives at Virginia Polytechnic Institute a nd State University, e-mail: gailmac@vt.edu; Ann Schaffner has been an academic librarian fo r m ore than 20 years a n d is currently a fu ll time MBA student at Simmons College, e-mail: ann.schaffner@simmons.edu mailto:ivy_anderson@harvard.edu mailto:gailmac@vt.edu mailto:ann.schaffner@simmons.edu 208 / C&RL News ■ February 2001 Figure 1: W orkflow fo r DOI Reference Linking crossref the purpose o f obtaining their DOIs, and the creation o f links using those DOIs. Peter Boyce of the American Astronomi­ cal Society (AAS), reporting in the pioneer­ ing online journal “Astrophysics Journal Let­ ters,” w rote in 1997, “Reader feedback con­ tinues to em phasize the im portance of links by w hich it is possible to retrieve referenced articles… ”2 Because reference linking is so important, publishers o f scholarly journals have an eco­ nomic imperative to provide reference links— journals w ithout links will be seen as less valuable or useful than those w ith links.	cache/crln-22135.pdf	txt/crln-22135.txt