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The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) announced in October that its Electronic Library Project is now operational. The first installation of the project, at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, was completed on schedule, and training of departmental staff at Thomas Jefferson University is ongoing.
The Electronic Library Project provides the tables of contents, bibliographic data, and abstracts for approximately 1,350 scholarly journals indexed in Current Contents/Life Sciences, with the addition of the full images of those journals for which publishers have agreed to allow electronic storage and delivery. It provides for seamless integration at the pilot site through a network-based client/server system that can be added to and can coexist with the site's current local area network (LAN). ISI's Electronic Library Project is designed to test the economics involved, to weigh the need for security vs. access, and to measure and assess usability.
More Sites Soon
ISI will continue to adhere to an aggressive installation and testing schedule for its Electronic Library Project. This fall, four other North American pilot sites will be operational. Early in 1996, the Electronic Library will be installed at two...