Glossary of distributed information and reference linking services

• ArXiv. Collection of eprint archives based at Los Alamos covering physics, mathematics and computer science.
• CogPrints. An eprint archive for cognitive sciences, modelled on the Los Alamos physics eprint archives and hosted at Southampton University.
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR): an eprint archive of papers in all areas of computer science.
• CookiePusher. A user interface that informs an SFX server of user context and preferences.
• CrossRef. A commercial reference linking service for journal publishers.
• Dienst. A protocol and server for distributed document libraries.
• Digital Object Identifier (DOI). An identification system for intellectual property in the digital environment.
• Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER). A managed environment for those in the UK higher and further education community to access quality-assured information resources on the Internet.
• Distributed Link Service (DLS). Software supporting link placement in third-party documents that are accessible anywhere on the Web.
• Dublin Core. A metadata element set for labelling electronic resources.
• Eprint archives. Classified and indexed storage and retrieval services for formal scholarly papers deposited by authors.
• EPrints. Generalised software developed at Southampton University for managing eprint archives.
• LinkBaton. A user interface to a link resolver that directs particular link types at user-specified resources.
• Link resolvers. Two issues in resolving links to destination documents on the Web are: stability of the documents’ location, and multiple versions. Link resolvers can help with one or both of these problems, e.g. see the CrossRef -- DOI -- OpenURL -- SFX link resolver demo.
• Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library (NCSTRL). A federated collection of technical report libraries maintained by different university computer science departments.
• Open Archives initiative (OAi). Initially a forum to solve interoperability between author self-archiving solutions (eprint archives), now extended to support a wider range of digital resources of academic and scholarly interest.
• OpenURL. A URL that transports metadata, or keys to access metadata, for a digital document or object for which the OpenURL is provided.
• ResearchIndex. Software designed for ‘autonomous citation indexing’, in effect builds an ISI-like index of the online full-text scientific literature.
• Santa Fe convention.  Document specifying the technical requirements for implementing Open Archives. Soon to be revised and renamed the Open Archives Harvesting Framework Specifications.
• SFX. A link resolver and server designed to give users of a given university or institutional library access to local resources and to networked subscription and non-subscription-based services.
• SlinkS. The Scholarly Link Specification framework. Facilitates inter-publisher reference linking by providing a syntax and vocabulary for exchanging information.
• SPIRES. Stanford Public Information REtrieval System. A collection of library databases covering high-energy physics, including journals and eprint archives.

For more information on these terms see the extended glossary.