PRESS RELEASE
Lisse, the Netherlands
October 8, 2001

SwetsnetNavigator implements CrossRef linking to IEEE and Wiley journals

Swets Blackwell announced today the addition of article-level links to over
100 electronic journals published by IEEE and Wiley from SwetsnetNavigator,
their electronic journal service. Linking of this nature is possible because
of the combined CrossRef and DOI technologies. Swets Blackwell joined
CrossRef's Affiliate program in December 2000, and was the first
subscription agent to do so.

Gaining affiliate status enabled Swets Blackwell to obtain Digital Object
Identifiers (DOIs) from CrossRef's metadata database for articles published
by CrossRef member publishers not included in SwetsnetNavigator.  By
incorporating these DOIs into SwetsnetNavigator's Tables of Contents and
search results, users can seamlessly link to the corresponding article at
CrossRef member publishers' sites. Because Swets Blackwell's subscription
administration system is completely integrated with SwetsnetNavigator, links
to full text articles will only appear if users hold subscriptions to the
corresponding journals.

IEEE and Wiley are among the first CrossRef publishers for whom Swets
Blackwell has implemented these links, and more publishers will be added to
SwetsnetNavigator in the future thanks to this technology. The number of
IEEE and Wiley journals to which links have been created will also increase
over time.

Yvonne Campfens, Director of Publisher Relations & Marketing at Swets
Blackwell, commented: "Being a CrossRef Affiliate has enabled us to increase
the number of links to publishers and titles in SwetsnetNavigator. We are
extremely pleased to have such prestigious publishers as IEEE and Wiley to
link to via SwetsnetNavigator".

Ed Pentz, Executive Director of CrossRef, added: "We are very pleased. This
development demonstrates both the value of CrossRef to the broader primary
and secondary publishing industry, and the different ways in which
CrossRef's linking infrastructure can be put to use."

CrossRef is a non-profit collaborative reference linking service formed by
scholarly publishers.  Membership is open to primary scholarly publishers
while other organizations can become CrossRef Affiliates or agents.
CrossRef operates behind-the-scenes by maintaining a database of Digital
Object Identifiers (DOIs) and metadata and offering a DOI look up service to
enable the creation of links to full text locations.  CrossRef currently has
83 member publishers with more than 3.5 million articles from over 5,100
journals in its database. For more information about CrossRef, visit
http://www.crossref.org

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