TESTING A DIGITAL LIBRARY - USER RESPONSE TO THE CORE PROJECT

The Chemistry Online Retrieval Experiment (CORE), a five-year R&D proj ect, was one of the earliest attempts to make a substantial volume of the text and graphics from previously published scholarly journals ava ilable to end-users in electronic form, across a computer network, Sin ce CORE dealt with material that had already gone through traditional print publication, its emphasis was on the process (and limitations) o f conversion, the optimization of presentation, and use of the convert ed contents for readers, This article focuses on the user response to the system.