INDIVIDUALLY TAILORED TABLES OF CONTENTS VIA BM-SWETSCAN ON THE BOEHRINGER MANNHEIM NETWORK

For some months the central library of Boehringer Mannheim GmbH, a res earch-based pharmaceutical company in Germany has been disseminating t ables of contents in electronic form. These electronic tables of conte nts are generated from the current scientific journal literature. At p resent the library supplies contents pages of roughly 440 journals to 240 internal clients. This service has been designed as a means of rap id distribution of individually tailored information from the topical scientific literature. The tables of contents are delivered to the cli ents' electronic mailboxes via the electronic mail system. We describe the situation before the introduction of this service, the motives fo r switching to this service, and the librarian and technical work nece ssary in the preliminary stages. Moreover the paper shows the realisat ion of the project, the problems occurring during the phase of introdu ction and the acceptance by the users.