“STM pub­lisher Else­vier, Nether­lands, and PANGAEA — Pub­lish­ing Net­work for Geo­sci­en­tific & Envi­ron­men­tal Data — have announced their next step in inter­con­nect­ing the diverse ele­ments of sci­en­tific research. Else­vier arti­cles at Sci­enceDi­rect are now enriched with graph­i­cal infor­ma­tion link­ing to asso­ci­ated research data sets that are deposited at PANGAEA.

PANGAEA is a data library which links pri­mary data related to arti­cles in earth and envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence jour­nals and thus may serve some hun­dred jour­nals of the Else­vier port­fo­lio. In the first phase, more than 1,000 arti­cles from var­i­ous earth sci­ence jour­nals were linked. The data are freely avail­able from the publication’s page in Sci­enceDi­rect, with­out a login or subscription.

The lat­est ini­tia­tive fol­lows the intro­duc­tion, last Feb­ru­ary, of ‘rec­i­p­ro­cal link­ing’ — auto­mat­i­cally link­ing research data sets deposited at PANGAEA to cor­re­spond­ing arti­cles in Else­vier jour­nals on its elec­tronic plat­form Sci­enceDi­rect and vice versa. The new fea­ture adds a map to every Sci­enceDi­rect arti­cle that has asso­ci­ated research data at PANGAEA. It dis­plays all geo­graph­i­cal loca­tions for which such data is avail­able. A sin­gle click then brings the user from the Sci­enceDi­rect arti­cle to the research data set at PANGAEA.”

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter