Elsevier to Contribute 9 million Articles to CrossCheck

["Menefee, Daviess (ELS-NYC)" <D.Menefee@elsevier.com>]

The following press release may be of interest to readers of this list.
Daviess Menefee
Library Relations
Elsevier

Amsterdam, 23 June 2008 - Elsevier announced today that it will 
implement CrossCheck, the plagiarism detection service offered by 
CrossRef in collaboration with iParadigms. With plagiarism a 
growing problem for journal editors, Elsevier has invested in 
CrossCheck to develop, pilot and implement, a single database of 
published articles enabling publishers to easily verify the 
originality of submitted and published work.

After a successful six months pilot with eight leading 
publishers, Elsevier is now in the process of integrating 
CrossCheck into its editorial workflows as part of its efforts to 
support the peer review process and assist the scientific 
community in all aspects of publishing ethics. Elsevier will 
contribute nearly nine million journal articles to the CrossCheck 
database, which is launching with a commitment of over 20 million 
journal articles from publishers including the Association for 
Computing Machinery, American Society of Neuroradiology, BMJ 
Publishing Group, Institute of Electrical & Electronics 
Engineers, International Union of Crystallography, The Journal of 
the American Medical Association, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford 
University Press, Sage, Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), and Wiley 
Blackwell.

"By creating a pooled database of articles from multiple 
publishers and tested tools, we can provide assistance to the 
scholarly community on an unprecedented scale," commented Martin 
Tanke, Elsevier's Managing Director of S&T Journal Publishing, 
"CrossRef has taken the principles of publisher collaboration far 
beyond reference linking. CrossCheck, combined with our recently 
launched Publishing Ethics Resource Kit and full journal 
membership in COPE (Committee on Publishing Ethics) further 
reinforce our commitment."

"CrossRef took the initiative to create this co-operative 
publisher service, which we greatly appreciate. This is a 
tremendous development and we are delighted that this 
collaboration has been so fruitful," said Karen Hunter, Senior 
Vice President Global Academic & Customer Relations and 
Elsevier's CrossRef Board member, "The iParadigms software is 
impressive and we are look forward to working with them."

John Barrie, Ph.D, president and CEO of iParadigms, LLC added, 
"Our customers, especially academic ones, have been asking for 
more medical and science content for checking the originality of 
work destined for publication. Elsevier's adoption of CrossCheck 
powered by iThenticate lets us leverage their vast, 
industry-leading content to significantly enhance the 
effectiveness of our originality checking services. Likewise, 
Elsevier will leverage the CrossCheck and iParadigms database 
which makes for a powerful alliance and one that is extremely 
beneficial to our network of institutional subscribers."

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