ELECTRONIC CHEMISTRY JOURNALS - ELEMENTAL CONCERNS

Experimental scholarly electronic journals have existed in a variety o f forms for several years. The CORE (Chemistry Online Retrieval Experi ment) Project, one of the oldest and largest efforts, is now in its fi fth and final year. Cornell University's Mann Library, Bellcore, the A merican Chemical Society (ACS), Chemical Abstracts Service and OCLC ha ve 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 p ublishers, libraries, and scholars in the shift from paper to electron ic dissemination of scholarly research The library's focus has been on how to ensure that scholars retain unimpeded physical and intellectua l access to journal contents after this transition takes place.