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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Open Journal Project</title> </head> <body background="bg4.gif"> <table cellpadding=0 border=0> <tr> <td width=100 rowspan=99 valign=top> <center><img src="ojf.gif" alt="ojf" border=0> The Open Journal Project</center> These pages last updated <tt>1 November 1999</tt> <hr> <a href="about.htm">ABOUT</a> the project <a href="partners.htm">PARTNERS</a> R&D centres and publishers <a href="personnel.html">PERSONNEL</a> <a href="papers.htm">PAPERS</a> produced by the project <a href="present.htm">PRESENTATIONS</a> at conferences and seminars <a href="journals.htm">JOURNAL RESOURCES</a> hosted by or accessible through the project </td> <td>      </td> <td align=left valign=top> <H1>The Open Journal Project</H1> <h3>"Bringing journals alive on the World Wide Web"</h3> <hr> <h3>Fast facts</h3> The Open Journal project is effectively closed. Finding out about it: The work of the project was described at length in the <a href="yr3/3rd-year-open.htm">final report</a> and more succinctly in <a href="http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december98/12hitchcock.html">a paper in D-Lib Magazine</a>, and these are good starting points if you want to find out what the project did and what it achieved. What happens next? <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org">The Open Citation Project</a>, also funded by JISC, is extending the work pioneered by the Open Journal project to citation linking in large-scale eprint archives, notably the LANL physics eprint archive. The scope and requirements of citation linking have grown significantly since the Open Journal project began and new developers have emerged. The new project involves all those who are creating the latest and best in linking tools and services. What was it? An R&D project Funded by: <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/">Electronic Libraries (eLib) programme</a> Start date: May 1995 End date (funded phase): May 1998 R&D centres: Multimedia Research Group, Southampton University, and Electronic Publishing Research Group, Nottingham University Other partners: Eleven publishers of primary and secondary journal information. <a href="partners.htm">Details</a> Mission statement: To build a framework for publishing applications enabling journals on the Web to be interlinked in ways which build on the traditional qualities and identities of the journals, and which increases the readers' ability to follow, search and access the literature for themed study and research using the maximum available online resources. Deliverables: <a href="TryOJ.htm">Demonstrator Open Journals</a> for evaluation and selected open access eLib category: <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/projects/intro.html#ej">Electronic Journals</a> Keywords: electronic journals, digital libraries, hypertext linking <hr> <h3>Aim</h3> The aim of the Open Journal project was to provide a framework for publishing journals in a network environment, on the World Wide Web in particular, such that maximum access to, and from, the publications is ensured. This involved bringing journals produced in html and pdf formats 'alive' with large numbers of hypertext links created with the Distributed Link Service and information mining agents.   <table cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0 border=0> <tr><td valign=top BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC"> <h3>Journals and links</h3> The popularity of the Web has <a href="uksg.htm">accelerated the development of online scholarly journals in the last couple of years</a>. The dominating feature of the Web is the hypertext link. Innovative publishers of Web journals are now adding new features to the online version, and foremost among these features is the use of links. New initiatives to link references in journal papers to the cited article, either in full-text form or to the abstract of the paper in a database, are the first manifestation of this approach. The Open Journal project worked with publishers in the fields of cognitive science, biology and computer science to explore how this approach can be extended by using links to make explicit other relations between works, and to take users directly from journals to non-journal resources, <a href="cogsci.htm"> linking full-text papers to abstracting and indexing databases</a> in the cognitive science example. The essence of an Open Journal is to make resources available not as isolated materials but as cooperating assets within an information delivery environment. The Distributed Link Service, instead of coding link data within the original documents as in html, stores these data separately in link databases, or linkbases. The link data can be superimposed on a document when it is viewed on the Web. Effectively, the links are added at runtime, appearing as familiar Web 'buttons' within the text. In other words, the page will look like any other Web page, but it may or may not have many more links. In addition the project explored the impact of linkbases on publishing. In a rich link environment the critical need is for quality links. Links are a means to offer access to selected works, which is what journals do now. One scenario in this analysis is that the published 'journal' will become a set of links. </td></tr> </table> <hr> This page <tt>http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/</tt> <hr> <center> <a href="index.html#top">[Top of page]</a> <a href="about.htm">[About]</a> <a href="partners.htm">[Partners]</a> <a href="papers.htm">[Papers]</a> </center> </td> <td width=20 rowspan=99></td> <td width=100 rowspan=99 valign=top> <table cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0 border=0> <tr><td><a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/ "> <IMG SRC="elibsm2.gif" ALIGN=left border=0 alt="Electronic Libraries programme (eLib)"></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td valign=top BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC"> The Open Journal project is funded by the <a href="http://www.jisc.ac.uk/">Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)</a> of the Higher Education Funding Councils, as part of its <a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/">Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme</a>. </td> </tr> <tr><td></td></tr> <tr> <td valign=top bgcolor="#9966CC"><a href="TryOJ.htm">TRY AN OPEN JOURNAL</a> </td> </tr> <tr><td> MORE INFORMATION? Contact Steve Hitchcock our <a href="mailto:sh94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk">Liaison Officer</a> </td></tr> <tr><td>OR CONTACT US AT: <address>Open Journal Project, Department of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Tel: (01703) 594479 Fax: (01703) 592865</address> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </body> </html> <script src='https://archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js'></script>