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The e-Citation Concept for Journals published by Copernicus Gesellschaft

How to generate unique & permanent Linksout of the Classical Citation

July 2005

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The classical citation of an article published e.g. in Annales Geophysicae, vol. 22, page range 3–13, in 2004 would be:

Ann. Geophys., 22, 3–13, 2004

* The Copernicus Gesellschaft uses the CAS abbreviations for journal short titles.

The Classical Citation of an Article

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The Classical Citation as e-Citation

The “translation” of this classical citation to an URL address uses the journal short title as domain, and vol., first page and publication year as folders.

The classical citation

Ann. Geophys., 22, 3–13, 2004

results in the e-citation:

www.ann-geophys.net/22/3/2004/

* The Copernicus Gesellschaft uses .net domains

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The HTML File of the Abstract

The link www.ann-geophys.net/22/3/2004/ brings the user to the abstract of the article. This HTML file shows:

• The classical citation

• The e-citation

• The copyright

• Title, author(s), affiliation(s), abstract body

• The link to the full-text-article in pdf

The html file is named:

/angeo-22-3-2004.html

It enables the user to recognise the file after download!

* The Copernicus Gesellschaft uses its own but public journal abbreviations for files.

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The PDF File of the Article

According to the abstract HTML file the full article PDF file shows:

• The classical citation

• The e-citation

• The copyright

• Title, author(s), affiliation(s), abstract body

• Full article

The PDF file is named:

/angeo-22-3-2004.pdf

It also enables the user to recognise the file after download!

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The Resolver to prevent Linking Errors

• Full citation: www.ann-geophys.net/22/3/2004/ points to the abstract /angeo-22-3-2004.html

• Forgotten year: www.ann-geophys.net/22/3/ also points to the abstract /angeo-22-3-2004.html due to its uniqueness

• Forgotten page: www.ann-geophys.net/22/ points to the “Volumes and issues” overview

• Forgotten volume: www.ann-geophys.net/ points to the home page of the journal

* The URL with long notation www.annales-geophysicae.net also points to the home page of the journal and is used for advertisement (because it is easy to memorise).

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The Advantages of the new URL Structure for e-Citations

• The unique & permanent link is self-explanatory. No need for a resolver like for DOI numbers!

• Finding a citation e.g. in the reference list of another article allows the reader to find the online version directly.

• Search engines, data bases & archives can generate the links by their own because the links only consist of typical

bibliographic data.

• The URLs are independent from any society or publisher. After selling the journal any new publisher will get the domain and

can keep all links!

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• Advances in Geosciences – www.adv-geosci.net• Advances in Radio Science – www.adv-radio-sci.net• Annales Geophysicae – www.ann-geophys.net• Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics – www.atmos-chem-phys.net• Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions – www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net• Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions – www.astrophys-space-sci-trans.net• Biogeosciences – www.biogeosciences.net• Biogeosciences Discussions – www.biogeosciences-discuss.net• Climate of the Past – www.clim-past.net• Climate of the Past Discussions – www.clim-past-discuss.net• Hydrology and Earth System Sciences – www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net• Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions – www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci-discuss.net• Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences – www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net• Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics – www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net• Ocean Science – www.ocean-sci.net• Ocean Science Discussions – www.ocean-sci-discuss.net• Social Geography – www.soc-geogr.net• Social Geography Discussions – www.soc-geogr-discuss.net

The List of the Citeable Journal Domains