Open Access : More on the Web Citation Index. Barbara Quint, Thomson ISI to Track Web-Based Scholarship with NEC?s CiteSeer, Information Today, March 1, 2004. Excerpt: "With the Open Access movement bringing Web-based scholarship to increased prominence, leading A&I services that have long provided the access tools to identify scholarship face new challenges. Thomson ISI, a longtime leader in netting scholarship, primarily through citation patterns, has launched a new initiative to handle this problem. It will collaborate with NEC Laboratories America to create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary citation index for Web-based scholarly resources. Due out in early 2005, the new Web Citation Index will tap a number of technologies developed by NEC, primarily the 'autonomous citation indexing' tools of NEC's CiteSeer software. CiteSeer has been highly praised for its strength at monitoring and connecting research for computer literature." The new service will index OA journals as well as OA archives, and embrace journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, technical reports. Some but not all of the results will be available to users free of charge. [Open Access News]  9:55:41 AM   [Feedback ]