The CrossRef Search project is currently "on hold" with no new publishers being added, and no developments planned at the moment, but it is still in operation. For more information please contact: info@crossref.org

CrossRef Search Pilot

In order to open published scholarly content for the first time to free, full-text interpublisher searchability, a group of 45 leading journal publishers are participating in a CrossRef Search Pilot.

This Pilot is initially limited to the content of 45 of the 1488 participating publishers and societies who collaborate to provide scholars with cross-publisher reference linking. There are approximately 6.5 million items now indexed.

Through a special, reciprocal arrangement between Google and CrossRef, this Pilot launches a typical Google search but filters the result set to the scholarly research content from participating publishers, with the intent of reducing the noise produced by general web searches.

Google has indexed the full text of scholarly journal articles on the publishers' websites through a CrossRef gateway. Users may submit searches from CrossRef Search Pilot boxes on participating publishers' sites. Results are returned from Google using the Google search and ranking algorithms, and using the article's DOI whenever possible to link from the search results to the published article.

The purpose of the Pilot, which will run during 2004 and 2005, is to determine the value to the scholarly community of a free, federated, full-text, interdisciplinary, interpublisher search focussed on the peer-reviewed scholarly literature.

During the Pilot, the publishers will solicit feedback from end users, while reviewing the quality and functionality of the service itself. Additional publishers are expected to join the Pilot but no schedule for adding publishers has yet been set.

The publishers currently participating are:

• Alphamed Press
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• American Psychiatric Publishing
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• Annual Reviews
• Ashley Publications
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
• BioMed Central
• Blackwell Publishing
• BMJ Publishing Group
• Cambridge University Press
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• EDP Science
• FASEB
• IEEE
• INFORMS
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Institute of Physics Publishing
• International Union of Crystallography
• Investigative Ophthamology and Visual Science
• Institute of Pure and Applied Physics (IPAP)
• Journal of Clinical Oncology
• S. Karger AG
• Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• Mary Ann Liebert
• Medicine Publishing Group
• Nature Publishing Group
• Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
• Oxford University Press
• Peeters Publishers
• PNAS
• RILEM Publications SARL
• Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Springer-Verlag
• Taylor & Francis
• Thieme Publishing Group
• University of California Press
• University of Chicago Press
• Vathek Publishing
• John Wiley & Sons
• Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science
• The World Bank

Please note that the process of crawling and indexing full-text content can take several weeks. The content of some publishers who joined this pilot intitiative only recently may not yet be fully indexed.