Just-in-Time(sm): Electronic Article Delivery Services

Just-in-Time(sm):
Electronic Article Delivery Services

"Just in time, I found you just in time." Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) Just in Time by Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Lyrics) and Jule Styne (Music) (1956)

PROJECTS, RESEARCH, PRODUCTS and SERVICES

General | Subject | Publisher

July 31, 1999

GENERAL

Name
CatchWord Ltd.
Contact
Tracy Shaw, Marketing Coordinator (tracy.shaw@catchword.com)
Request Information
Description
"CatchWord Ltd. was formed in 1994 as an electronic solution provider for publishers or owners of commercially valuable material who are looking to go online. There are now over 350 journals online from 27 publisher clients around the world." Current publishers include the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Carfax Publishing, the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Plenum Publsihing, Royal Society of Chemistry, Taylor and Francis, among several others.
"By taking the technical risk out of publishing electronically, CatchWord enables publishers to go online with minimum effort. The end result is a comprehensive and easy to use system for the consumer of electronic information, whether they are a librarian, academic researcher or end user."
"CatchWord uses RealPage technology to parallel publish paper material in electronic form,and hosts the material securely on a global network of 11 servers."
"RealPage journals are exact replications of the original printed page, and include benefits like full text searching and active reference linking. Journals are accessed directly from CatchWord's servers using the RealPage browser. This is free and can be downloaded from any of CatchWord's Servers. There are two versions of RealPage available making it suitable for a number of different platforms and it can also be network installed."
All articles are available in PDF or RealPage and future plans call for an XML-based delivery option.
Article costs are set by the publishers but on average a Social Science article will cost between $10-$15 and a Science-Technology-Medicine (STM) article between $ 15-25.

Serial Title Listing
Titles [Organized Alphabetically, by Publisher, by Subject, or by LC Classification]
Payment/Cost
Individual, 'Club', and Subscription accounts are available.
Purchases charged against a credit card or to a prepaid deposit account.
Access
http://www.catchword.com/

Name
Documents Direct (Leeds University Library)
Contact
Katie Birch, Document Delivery Project Officer (k.j.birch@leeds.ac.uk)
Katie Birch, Document Delivery Project Officer
Description
The aims of Documents Direct are "to investigate and evaluate new mechanisms for the discovery and delivery of full text journal articles and similar material to academic staff and researchers of ... [Leeds] University." Specifically, it is intended to:

Expand the range of sources available to those doing research within the University of Leeds
Streamline delivery to academic staff's desktops
Promote the use of current awareness services and evaluate their uptake
Assess the costs and benefits of on-demand single article supply to the desktop at the point of need as a potential alternative to full subscription to journals
Improve understanding of the information seeking and user behaviour of the user group

Documents Direct "will offer academics, research staff and postgraduate research students from the four participating schools access to a range of services offered by commercial suppliers ... ". These services will be Web-based and offer users access to:

Document Delivery

Electronic document delivery as an email attachment
Fax
Download article from the web
Postal delivery

Current Awareness Services (CAS)

Offer an automated way of helping researchers keep up-to-date with new publications and developments within their field
Remove the effort involved in scanning and browsing new editions of journals
Ordering articles directly from suppliers with delivery directly to your desktop

"Users will be able to search web-based databases from their PCs and request articles electronically usually within the same web interface. Documents will be delivered direct to the user's desktop in a proposed maximum of 4 working days, often faster."
The Documents Direct project began in March 1999. A trial will begin in June 1999 and will last for a minimum of six months.

Serial Title Listing
Possible Suppliers
Payment/Cost
"As a project, the (Leeds University) library has a budget from the Academic Development Fund to cover both initial subscription charges and charges for documents, which have been ordered via these services for the 12-month period of the project."
Access
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/docdel/home.htm

Name
The Electric Library
Contact
Customer Service
Description
"With The Electric Library, any person can pose a question in plain English and launch a comprehensive, simultaneous search through more than 150 full-text newspapers, hundreds and hundreds of full-text magazines, two international newswires, two thousand classic books, hundreds of maps, thousands of photographs, as well as major works of literature and art."
"The Electric Library is a comprehensive general reference product which contains premium content from a wide variety of sources, including.

More than 150 full-text newspapers
Hundreds of full-text magazines
National and international news wires
2,000 complete works of literature
Over 28,000 photos, images and maps
Television, radio and government transcripts
Book, movie and software reviews
Complete encyclopedia
Plus, a dictionary, thesaurus, and almanac, fact books, and more.

Serial Title Listing
Content of Electric Library
Payment/Cost
Individual, educational and corporate accounts are available.
Access
http://www.elibrary.com/

Name
Encarta^® Online Library
Contact
Customer Service
Description
"Encarta^® Online Library is a powerful, comprehensive, yet easy-to-use reference tool created by Information Access Company^tm, the leading supplier of databased content to public and school libraries and to corporations. ...Encarta^® Online Library gives you access to more than 1.2 million articles from over 800 magazines, scholarly journals, and other publications."

Serial Title Listing
Publications List
Payment/Cost
"For personal access and use,Encarta^® Online Library costs $9.95 (U.S.) per subscriber per month, or $59.95 (U.S.) for a full year-half the cost of having a monthly subscription for one year. If you choose the monthly option, your credit card will be billed each month. The annual subscription is billed at once and is valid for a full year. You can of course cancel a monthly or annual subscription at any time.
If you would rather not subscribe on a monthly or annual basis, one other access option is available. You can access Encarta^® Online Library articles at the cost of $1.00 (U.S.) per individual article. Your credit card will be billed periodically for as many articles as you have recently purchased."
"If you register for a pay-per-article subscription, your first charge will be for the first article you request. Subsequently you will be charged on a regular basis for each additional article you have accessed but not yet paid for. (Once you have accessed an article and have been charged for it, you may access that same article repeatedly during that same session of using Encarta^® Online Library without incurring an additional charge. Accessing that article again during a different session, however, will incur an additional charge just as in accessing it for the first time.)"
"For more information about Encarta^® Online Library pricing, ... read the Billing Terms."
Access
Encarta^® Online Library

Name
HighWire Press
Contact
highwire@forsythe.stanford.edu
Description
The mission of "HighWire Press is to:

Foster research and instruction by providing a more direct linkage between the writers and readers of scholarly materials.
Use innovative network tools for capture, publishing, retrieval, reading and presentation.
Affect the economics of provision of scholarly information to researchers, especially science, technology and medical (STM) research information.
Build new technological, economic and programmatic partnerships with others investigating related problems.

"HighWire is developing a collection of high-impact frequently cited journals in the biomedical sciences and has plans to expand into other fields of science and technology."
HighWire Press is the "Internet Imprint of Stanford University Libraries.
Serial Title Listing
Current Sites (North America)
Current Sites (International)
Future Sites in Development
Payment/Cost
A pay per-view model is available in the form of a flat fee, e.g., $10-$25 that would provide access to an article for a limited period of time (e.g., 1-3 days). Currently only selected publishers or journals offer transaction access (i.e., JBC, Cell Press, and Pediatrics).
Access
http://www.highwire.org (North America)
http://intl.highwire.org (International)

Name
Information Quest
Contact
Customer Service
Description
"Information Quest is a powerful Web-based research, access and electronic information delivery solution, a product of the Dawson Information Services Group and the Faxon Company. It provides unique searching capabilities and state-of-the-art access to a wide range of scientific, technical, medical, business reference, and popular consumer electronic and print content, as well as simplifying electronic journal management. Up to 30,000 new citations are added each week."
"Features of IQ Version 2.0 include:

Online delivery via Pay-Per-View where users can order individual articles directly from publishers (such as Kluwer) on a transactional basis. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts will also be available via pay-per-view.
Desktop delivery of articles in their original format including graphs and illustrations.
Tables of contents from over 20,000 titles from the British Library collection.
Over 8 million bibliographic citations from the Faxon Finder database, many dating back to 1990.
Electronic content from prestigious publishers and providers, such as AIP, Springer, Academic Press, Blackwell Science, and more.
Enhanced searching capabilities beyond traditional Boolean, including key word, concept, pattern matching, and query-by-example searching.
A current awareness service, IQ Alerts, which offers users the opportunity to be alerted by e-mail when new content (selected either by title or topic) is added to the IQ database.
Multi-delivery options including on-screen viewing, and fax document delivery from the British Library and/or UnCover^® (with page counts added).
Multiple purchase options, including deposit accounts and credit card orders, with comprehensive online purchase summary reports.
Sort order option of results by relevancy, ascending or descending date.
Delivery by Publisher - online delivery directly from the publisher's site, many times right to the article level.
Activation of the In Library module, allowing users to identify whether the title is available in the library's paper collection."

Serial Title Listing
IQ's Content
Payment/Cost
Pricing is available - copyright fees included.
Access
http://www.eiq.com/

Name
ingentaJournals
Contact
help@ingenta.com
Description
"The BIDS service has now moved into a new public/private sector partnership under a new company name:- ingenta ltd. Following this move, JournalsOnline has now been renamed as ingentaJournals. Access to ingentaJournals is via a unified login procedure for all ingenta services. Access rights are unaffected by the changes; all users of JournalsOnline will still have access to ingentaJournals."
ingentaJounals offers access to over 100,000 full text electronic articles from an expanding range of more than 500 leading academic journals. Participating publishers include Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Publishers, Blackwell Science, Gordon and Breach, John Wiley & Sons, Learned Information, MCB University Press, and Oxford University Press, among others . Full text access is available generally to subscribers only, though some articles may be ordered individually using account or credit card facilities."
Anyone may search the ingentaJournals catalogue of articles free of charge.
Selected publishers do permit non-subscribers "to view and download full- text articles upon payment of a copyright-cleared fee".
Serial Title Listing
List of Journals
Payment/Cost
Articles are priced individually by participating publishers.
Users may order an article for immediate electronic delivery, if available, from participating publisher. Payment may be made on-screen using VISA, Mastercard or Eurocard. No charge will be made until the document has been successfully delivered.
Access
http://www.ingenta.com/

Name
NewsLibrary^tm
Contact
newslibrary@krmediastream.com
Description
NewsLibrary^tm provides access to the full-text of over 16 million articles in 41 major U.S. regional newspapers. Notable examples include:

Baltimore Sun
Boston Globe
Detroit Free Press
Miami Herald
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Philadelphia Inquirer
San Jose Mercury News
and major local and other regional papers.
Archival access is available and varies with an individual newspaper.
"Searching is free. Charges apply only when stories are accessed."
A LibraryCard to required to view the full-text of the articles.
Serial Title Listing
[List of Searchable Newspapers]
Payment/Cost
"You will be charged for each story you view."" Prices vary by source newspaper and are posted along with the lead to the article."
"Your NewsLibrary charges will be billed to your credit card and will appear on your credit card billing statement each month."
Access
http://newslibrary.infi.net/noframes2.htm

Name
Northern Light Special Collection
Contact
cs@northernlight.com
Description
Through its Special Collection service Northern Light offers access to articles and similar publication from over 4,500 journals, reviews, books, magazines, and news wires.
"Not only is most of the data completely unavailable on the Internet, the breadth of information offered in one place is unique to Northern Light."
"All abstracts describing premium articles are free of charge, as well as abstracts from Medical Data Exchange. In addition to abstract information, the Magill Book Reviews are free, compliments of Salem Press."
"When choosing a Special Collection item from the results list, you always receive a free summary of the article, to determine if the article is what you're looking for."
Serial Title Listing
Special Collection: Lookup By Alphabet
Special Collection: Lookup by Subject
Payment/Cost
"Most prices range from zero to four dollars per article, averaging $1.00 each.""
Access
http://www.northernlight.com/search.html
Reference
SPRING, T. The Web's 'Research Engine'. PC World News, April 27, 1999.

Name
OCLC Interlibrary Loan Electronic Documents Service
Contact
OCLC-affiliated Regional Network office or OCLC distributor
Description
"Using a new option in the OCLC Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service, [members] ... may request ASCII text documents using existing OCLC ILL procedures and workflows. This option expands the document resources available to OCLC members."
"To provide this service, OCLC assigns each electronic supplier a special OCLC symbol. OCLC batchloads suppliers' holdings and constructs local data records (LDRs) to represent their available titles."
"The documents are delivered as ASCII text in the body of e-mail messages. The messages are sent to the library address specified in the :E-MAIL: field of the request. Once the e-mail message containing the document arrives, [members] ... may print it or forward it electronically to ... [a] user. ..."[D]elivery time depends partly on [the local]... e-mail system, but typically the document arrives within minutes of the time the request is submitted to the supplier."
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"WilsonSelect (symbol F$W) is the first electronic supplier to provide this option. The WilsonSelect (H.W. Wilson's Select Full Text) database lets ... [a library] search a collection of records with abstracts and full text articles from over 400 periodicals from H.W. Wilson's General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts databases."
"OCLC will notify you of additional suppliers via a logon Message-of-the Day and ILL-L."
"Documents longer than 32K are shipped in multiple messages."

Payment/Cost
No additional costs are associated with this option other than the electronic suppliers' charges. [Libraries] ... pay normal OCLC charges for searching, creating requests, and using the ILL Fee Management (IFM) service."
"Suppliers' policies and charges are available in the OCLC Name-Address Directory. OCLC lists available electronic suppliers in a Name-Address Directory record under the symbol F$DD.
Access
Requesting Electronic Documents
Receiving Electronic Documents

Name
PEAK (Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge)
Contact
peakgroup@umich.edu
Description
"PEAK will explore both bundling and nonlinear pricing opportunities afforded by electronic access. The key research objective is generalizability to other user populations and other scholarly materials."
"The University of Michigan (UM) and Elsevier Science are working together on PEAK. PEAK permits UM to create and manage a host service for all 1110 journals published by Elsevier, including the North Holland, Butterworth, and Pergamon imprints. This experiment extends the cooperative relationship between the two organizations which began with UM's participation in The University LIcensing Project (TULIP). The PEAK experiment will last a minimum of 18 months during which time UM will offer host services to other institutions and organizations under different pricing options. Initial services ... [began] in summer 1997."
"After extensive discussion with library collection experts and potential participants, the [PEAK]project team [has] decided to offer three bundles. The first two options mirror the best-known traditional options; the third choice is more novel.

Per article - Individual users can purchase unlimited access to a specific article for a fixed price."
Traditional subscription - Institutional and individual users can purchase unlimited access to a set of articles that correspond to Elsevier print-on-paper journal titles.
Generalized subscription - Institutional users can purchase unlimited access to a set of 120 articles selected after the fact by the users. Individual users can purchase smaller bundles."

"The goal of the PEAK field experiment is to generate rich empirical evidence on user behavior and on provider experience with various bundling and pricing options. PEAK will extend the existing theoretical work in these areas to more realistic situations. The space for electronic access bundling and pricing structures is immense, however, and many field trials will be required to explore even a limited set of important alternatives. Continued collaborative efforts between libraries and publishers will build on the knowledge gained through this experiment."
"PEAK is a research and content delivery project at the Univesity of Michigan."
Payment/Cost
Price - Product Matrix
PEAK Pricing in a Nutshell
Access
https://www.umdl.umich.edu/peak (Restricted to Authorized Subscribers)
References
KIERNAN, V. Paying by the article: libraries test a new model for scholarly journals. Chronicle of Higher Education, August 14, 1998,A21-A22.
MACKIE-MASON, J.K. and JANKOVICH, L.L. PEAK: Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge. Position Paper, Current version: April 18, 1997.
MACKIE-MASON, J.K. and RIVEROS, J.F. Economics and Electronic Access to Scholarly Information. Position Paper, Current version: May 19, 1997.
MACKIE-MASON, J.K. and RIVEROS, J.F. PEAK: Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge: A Field Experiment, Presentation Slides, 1997.
MACKIE-MASON, J.K., RIVEROS, J.F., BONN, M.S. and LOUGEE, W.P. A report on the PEAK experiment: usage and economic behavior. D-Lib Magazine, 5 (7/8), July/August 1999.
Universities test model for pricing electronic journals. Library Journal Digital, News This Week, August 17, 1998.

Name
powerize.com Business Research Center^tm
Contact

Feedback
30-Day Free Trial Subscription
Description
"powerize.com Business Research Center^tm is the largest collection of business information on the Internet, with more than 32 million articles from over 8,000 publications, including information about more than 11 million companies in the U.S. and abroad. has an extensive collection of sources includes more than 69 newswires, 300 newspapers, 798 newsletters, 6306 journals and information on more than 11 million companies."
Sources include Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Disclosure, Find/SVP, H.W. Wilson, IAC, Bell & Howell Information and Learning (formerly UMI) and Data Times, among many others.
Searching is free-of-charge.
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Sources and Publications
Payment/Cost
Articles are priced individually and range from $1-$20. "Most articles are $ 1.75 or less" ; special reports are higher priced.
Pre-registration required. Purchases charged against credit card or corporate accounts.

Access
Simple Search
Advanced Search
Expands on simple Search by enabling you to specify the price of the articles you want to search for, the date range you're interested in, the individual sources you want to search, how you want search results sorted, and more.
Financial Search
Use Financial Search when you want detailed information about companies, industries, and markets.
News Search
Search powerize.com business research center's extensive collection of newswires.

Name
ScienceDirect^tm
Contact
Linda R. Sacks, Marketing Director (l.sacks@sciencedirect.com)
Description
ScienceDirect^tm"is an online host facility for scientific information. It is based on the World Wide Web, and when complete, will offer libraries and their end users desktop access to remotely-stored full text of more than 1,000 journals published by Elsevier Science, as well as full text from other participating publishers."
"During the past few months the ScienceDirect^tm database has grown considerably, to 886 journals as of 22 June 1998, representing more than 11,000 issues, and more than 188,000 journal articles from Elsevier Science. Articles from 275 journals in clinical medicine and the life sciences were added in January [1998]; 90 chemistry journals were added in March; 280 journals in the hard sciences--engineering and technology, computer sciences and mathematics, and physics--were added in May [1998]." "By the fourth quarter of 1998, ScienceDirect^tm will contain the full text of three years of journal articles from Elsevier Science: 1996, 1997, and 1998, representing more than 300,000 articles. A subscription to ScienceDirect^tm covers four years of journal articles--the current year and the previous three volume years, on a rolling basis."
"Pricing for Elsevier Science titles in ScienceDirect^tm will be based on the cost of the print journal subscription(s) plus a percentage for electronic access. In addition, there will be an annual platform fee based on the size of an institution's user population. The pricing/licensing model can accommodate a wide range of situations, from single-site to global licensing and single- or multiple-year subscriptions. Access to non-subscribed titles will also be available on a transactional basis."
"Subscriptions are available to institutions only."
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about this service is available at:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/page/static/splash_about.html

Serial Title Listing
Journal listings available alphabetically, by broad subject category, or by publisher through Guest Area
Payment/Cost
"The pricing structure consists of three components:

Subscription fee to individual electronic journals, set by the publisher
Fee for use of the ScienceDirect^tm platform
Per-article transaction fee for non-subscribed journals."

Access
http://www.sciencedirect.com/

Name
UnCover^® Desktop Image Delivery
Contact
uncover@carl.org
Description
"UnCover^® will now offer users an alternative method for receiving full-text articles from the UnCover periodical database. Currently, The UnCover^® Company can provide articles from over 2,500 journals via UnCover^® Desktop Image Delivery. Nearly 300 scholarly, university and trade publishers have granted UnCover permission to deliver articles from their publications. UnCover^® continues to strengthen relationships with publishers and expects to continue obtaining permissions during the upcoming year."
"UnCover^® Desktop Image Delivery will allow users to download TIFF images of ordered articles, including text, graphics, photos, and charts directly to their desktop."
"The ordering process for desktop delivery will be streamlined to parallel the current procedures for ordering articles from the UnCover^® Web and there will be no extra fees for desktop delivery.When an article is available for desktop delivery, an icon appears next to the citation to inform the user of this option."
"After an order is placed for desktop delivery, the user will be sent an email notice when the image is ready for downloading. At that point, the user will need to download a viewer from the UnCover^® Web site to retrieve the article. There will be no fees to download the viewer, and downloading it will only have to be done once."
"UnCover^®, as with fax delivery, collects and pays copyright fees. To view the document, users must comply with a restrictive usage agreement. Users may only view and print an article once and it may not be stored or transmitted in machine-readable form, or reproduced/copied without prior written consent of the copyright holder."
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about this service is available at:
http://uncweb.carl.org/uncover/imgfaq.html

Serial Title Listing
Title and Subject Lists
Payment/Cost
Individual article costs are noted at the bottom of each citation record.

Access
http://uncweb.carl.org/

SUBJECT

Name
ACM Digital Library
Contact
info@acm.org
Description
The ACM Digital Library contains citations and full-text of articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
"All ACM journals and magazines are in the [ACM] Digital Library. Computing Reviews (CREV) is not offered as a stand-alone publication in the DL, but reviews from Computing Reviews are included in the Citations Database."
Access to citations is free to the public; full-text is by subscription or individual purchase.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about this service is available at:
http://www.acm.org/dl/faq.html

In order to have full access to the Library's offering, non-members are required to register; registration is free-of-charge. ACM Members and ACM Subscribers may use a free ACM Account.
Serial Title Listing
http://www.acm.org/dl/toc.html
Payment/Cost
"To buy individual articles: Go through the Tables of Contents or the DL Search, and find the article(s) you are interested in. If you are not a DL subscriber, you'll be promted to buy the article(s) if you try downloading full-text. The price per article is $3.00 for ACM Student members, $5.00 for ACM Voting and Associate members, and $10.00 for non-members."
Access
http://www.acm.org/dl/

Name
Articles in Physics^®
Contact
ojshelp@aip.org
Description
The Articles in Physics^® online document delivery service allows any user to purchase and receive online articles published by several physics-related societies through the Online Journals Publishing Service of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Participating groups include the AIP, APS, ASA, AVS, OSA, SOR, SPIE. Articles are provided in PDF format.
"Tables of Contents (and abstracts for some journals) are available for browsing by all users. Downloading of full-text articles requires a subscription to the publication. Document delivery services are available to non-subscribers."
Access to the Table of Contents of back issues is also available.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about this service is available at:
http://ojps.aip.org/bin/oddshelp?refer=

Serial Title Listing
http://ojps.aip.org/
Payment/Cost
Current price list for individual articles are available from service home page. Most articles are priced at $15/article with the remainder priced at $20/article.
Payment is made by charge to a credit card.
User may "save up to 50% when compared to the cost of other document delivery sources."
Access
http://ojps.aip.org/jhtml/artinphys/aipmain.html

Name
Bioline Publications
Contact
bio@biostrat.demon.co.uk
Description
"Bioline Publications is an electronic publishing service for bioscientists. In collaboration with publishers, editors and authors, it distributes peer-reviewed journals from around the world, plus reports, newsletters and books. The service is designed to provide maximum flexibility of use with interactive links to associated scientific information and a number of other services that add value to the system."
"All titles and abstracts of documents are available for browsing or searching free of charge. Full text and associated graphics of material of interest may be requested online, following registration."
"Documents from 1995 onwards (plus a few late 1994 documents) have links to graphics files placed within the body of the text. Earlier files have links to graphics files located at the END of the document. It is important to remember this when viewing earlier documents online."
"Bioline Publications is managed by scientists; it is a collaborative initiative, provided by the editorial office in the UK and the host computer and software development at the Base de Dados Tropical, BDT, Brazil."
Serial Title Listing
Journals
Payment/Cost
Bioline Publications Price List 1998
"The Code Number, the size of each file and the price of the single document are indicated in the abstract. The full text and associated images may be viewed online or ordered for e- mail delivery by selecting the Code Number. Some of the graphics files may be large and care needs to be taken that they can be accommodated without difficulty. All files greater than 64K will be automatically divided for transmission purposes."
Access
http://bioline.bdt.org.br/

Name
BioMedNet^tm: The Internet Community for Biological and Medical Researchers
Contact
info@biomednet.com
Description
The BioMedNet^tm Full Text Library features "hundreds of biological and medical publications"; Abstracts (and some articles) are free.
"Some full-text articles may be purchased individually, or via an online journal subscription."
Serial Title Listing
http://biomednet.com/library (Restricted to Registered Members)
Payment/Cost
"There is no charge for membership in the BioMedNet^tm community. However, the charging schemes for journals and databases in the BioMedNet^tm library is decided by the publisher or society concerned. Some items, such as The Scientist and HMS Beagle, are available free of charge. Others require either a subscription or a small payment for individual articles (typically between US$1-20). Others, including some of the Current Biology journals, offer free access to editorials, short articles, and letters. Prices and special offers can be found on each title's home page under "Prices/Subscriptions." Searching the library and viewing."
"BioMedNet^tm Institutional Deposit Accounts give institutions and their users access to full-text journals in the BioMedNet^tm library. An initial payment is made either by check or credit card, and subsequent purchases are debited from this balance."
"Searching the library and viewing abstracts is completely free of charge."
Access
http://biomednet.com/

Name
ChemPort^sm
Contact
chemport@cas.org
Description
"In 1998 scientists will be able to access full-text journals of key scientific publishers through STN Easy^sm, STN Express with Discover, SciFinder, and SciFinder Scholar via the ChemPort^sm Connection."

Key Features

Convenient access to the Web sites of prestigious scientific journal publishers.
Direct links, via STN Easy, from search results in CAplus, MEDLINE, EMBASE, BIOSIS, INSPEC, and other important scientific reference databases to the corresponding electronic full text at publishers' sites.
For selected journals, hyperlinks from the citations in the original articles to CAplus records."

Cooperating publishers include the American Chemical Society, IDEAL and Academic Press, American Institute of Physics, Karger Publishers, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Institute of Physics, Marcel Dekker, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer-Verlag, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Serial Title Listing
Journals List
Payment/Cost
"[F]rom some publishers, access to single articles on a per-article sales basis," billed to service account.
Access
http://www.chemport.org/html/english/about.html

Name
ChemWeb^tm: The World Wide Club For The Chemical Community
Contact
info@chemweb.com
Description
ChemWeb^tm offers "chemical researchers an array of scientific journals, databases references, as well as discussion groups, electronic meeting rooms, news services, a job exchange, and a shopping mall."
"It is the first commercial Web service to combine electronic publishing, databases, journals, and scientific forums, along with informatics technologies for structure-based searching, high-speed text retrieval, and manipulation of "live" molecular structures. ChemWeb^tm, Inc. is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Elsevier Science."
The ChemWeb^tm Library includes pay-per-view articles in journals from the following participating publishers:

Baltzer Science Pubishers
CRC Press
Current Biology
Current Chemistry
Gordon & Breach Publishing Group
Kluwer Academic Publishers

Registration is required to access the ChemWeb^tm services. To purchase available full-text articles, users are required to establish a credit card-based account.
Serial Title Listing
Journals A-Z
Payment/Cost
ChemWeb^tm Price List. View Products: by Type. Journals A-Z
ChemWeb^tm Price List. View Product: by Publisher
Access
http://www.ChemWeb.com

References
TOWN, W.G.ChemWeb - the World Wide Club for the chemical community: virtual growth becomes reality. ICSTI Forum: Quarterly Newsletter of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, No.28, August 1998.

PUBLISHER

Name
American Heart Association
Contact
http://www.ahajournals.org/cgi/feedback
Description
The American Heart Association (AHA) Journals Online "contains the full content of each issue of the journal, including all figures and tables. In addition, the full text is searchable by keyword, and the cited references include hyperlinks to Medline and to the full text of many other online journals."
Access to tables of contents, abstracts, and sample issues, and the ability to search full text, will continue to be available to the public.
"Online full-text content begins with the January 1998 issues, and will expand with each month's new issues. By March 1999, back issues to January 1995 will be included."
Serial Title Listing
AHA Journals Online
Payment/Cost
"The site is free and available to all on the Internet through the end of the trial period... Thereafter, access will be by personal subscription or institutional site license."
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http://www.ahajournals.org/

Name
Harvard Business Review
Contact
custserv@hbsp.harvard.edu
Description
"Harvard Business Review" brings its readers original research and firsthand perspectives from leading business thinkers around the world. Focused on the issues confronting top managers in todays complex environment, Harvard Business Review applies the best research and practice to the strategic challenges and operating problems of the day."
Users may browse current or back issues and select abstract of item of interest. A full abstract profiles are summary of the article with a hotlink for order or delivery options.
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[Current Issue]
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"Electronic Version: By checking this box you are adding a downloadable Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the product to your shopping cart at a price of $3.50. Maximum number of PDF's per order: 10.
Additional Copies: You will be charged $3.50 for each additional copy you plan to make."
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http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/hbr/index.html

Name
Science
Contact
http://www.sciencemag.org/
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"For US$10.00 you can have access .... to all content in Science Online or ScienceNOW for 24 hours."
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US $ 10 for 24 hours.
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Synergy - Online Journals from Blackwell Science and Munksgaard
Contact
support.synergy@healthgate.com
Description
Synergy is the online journal service from Blackwell Science and Munksgaard. The majority of the journals available through Synergy are published on behalf of learned societies and associations, and include some of the leading titles in science technology and medicine. It is expect that more than 200 journals will be available by 2000.
Serial Title Listing
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/journallist.asp
Payment/Cost
The site offers free guest access to tables of contents and abstracts. Registration is free and allows users to set-up their own personal page, search across all content and set-up e-mail alerts. Access to the full-text is via subscription or individual article purchase. The cost of an individual article in 1999 is $16, giving 30 days access with the ability to download and print.
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

BENSMAM, S.J. The Structure of the library market for scientific journals: the case of chemistry. Library Resources and Technical Services 40(2), April 1996,145-151,154-170.
FISKWICK, F., EDWARDS, L. and BLAGDEN, J. Scholarly Electronic Journals: Economic Implications. London, Library Information Technology Centre, South Bank University, 1998.
KLEINER, J.P. and HAMAKER, C.A. Libraries 2000: Transforming libraries using document delivery, needs assessment, and networked resources. College and Research Libraries 58(4), July 1997,355-374.
STERN, D.E. Pricing models: past, present, and future?. Outline and overheads prepared for presentation at Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground: Serials Vision and Common Sense,the 13th Annual Conference of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG), June 21, 1998, University of Colorado at Boulder. Article to appear in the conference proceedings issue of The Serials Librarian in Spring 1999.
TOMAIUOLO, N. Free bibliographic information on the Web. Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals 7(4), April 1999,20-25.

Just-In-Time (sm): Electronic Article Delivery Services is a clearinghouse of projects, research, products and services which are investigating or provide desktop access on an 'As Needed' basis to individual journal, magazine, newspaper, or other serial publication article, chapter, or paper for which an individual or institution does not have a formal subscription. This clearinghouse also includes bibliographic databases that can be searched for a fixed transactional fee. Entries have been organized in categories that characterize the scope of service and within each arranged alphabetically by the name of the service, project, or publisher.
We welcome nomination of other efforts that provide Pay-Per-View or other transactional access to full-text materials, particularly those that provide this retrieval through abstracting and indexing services.
Just-in-Time (sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian, Science and Technology Department, and Curator, CyberStacks(sm) and several other Net Projects at Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011

July 31, 1999

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