TY - JOUR AU - Cameron, Robert D. PY - 1997/04/07 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A Universal Citation Database JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 2 IS - 4 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v2i4.522 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/522 SP - AB - A universal, Internet-based, bibliographic and citation database would link every scholarly work ever written - no matter how published - to every work that it cites and every work that cites it. Such a database could revolutionize many aspects of scholarly communication: literature research, keeping current with new literature, evaluation of scholarly work, choice of publication venue, among others. Models are proposed for the cost-effective operational and technical organization of such a database as well as for a feasible initial goal: the semi-universal citation database ER -