[WEB4LIB] Paper ID - a definition?

[Eric Hellman]

These are usually called Article Numbers and were introduced in 
electronic journals to replace page numbers, since pagination is 
often irrelevant to these journals.

The American Physical Society began using them in a major way a few 
years ago in all its journals- this allowed them to to online 
publication and crossref deposit in advance of print pagination; APS 
considers the electronic version to be the versions of record. This 
year AIP has started using them in all its journals; AGU has been 
using them for about 3 years. The PLoS journals and Biomedcentral 
journals also use article numbers in preference to page numbers. 
Article number is widely used in many smaller electronic-only 
journals.

Eric

At 10:28 AM -0800 2/14/05, Liv Fugl wrote:
>Hi,
>I've recently come across a new (at least to me) concept: Paper ID
>As from what I can deduce it is being used as a replacement for
>pagenumbering of articles and as a more unique ID numbering of an
>article in some journals. I've been trying to figure out more about the
>concept but I must admit I gave up in Googling as it has not given much
>success except the mere result of articles containing Paper IDs themselves.
>
>So...I was wondering if anyone on Web4Lib would know of any more
>backgroundhistory on the concept?
>
>I'm looking for general/broad introduction to the concept:
>-is there a definition?
>-who started it?
>-how widespread is it? are any particular publishers using it?
>-is there an official syntax or perhaps a standard that it follows?
>The ID's do not seem very long, so I'm wondering if they are always
>intended to be used along with the journal title or the ISSN?
>
>
>-any additional information would be gratefull!
>
>Thank you!
>
>Liv
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