ABSTRACT
Summary. Experimental scholarly electronic journals have existed in a variety of forms for several years. The CORE (Chemistry Online Retrieval Experiment) Project, one of the oldest and largest efforts, is now in its fifth and final year. Cornell University’s Mann Library, Bellcore, the American Chemical Society (ACS), Chemical Abstracts Service and OCLC have created a system which will provide networked access to over half a million pages of machine-readable text and graphics from ACS journals. The objectives of this collaboration have been to study the numerous technical, logistical, economic, and sociological issues which face publishers, libraries, and scholars in the shift from paper to electronic dissemination of scholarly research. The library’s focus has been on how to ensure that scholars retain unimpeded physical and intellectual access to journal contents after this transition takes place.
