Kirstein, P; (1995) Experiences with On-line Access to Chemical Journals. In: Proceedings of the INET'95 - the 5th Annual Conference of the Internet Society. ISOC: Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Abstract

Several US organisations have collaborated in the CORE project to deliver electronic information from primary publications to end-user chemists. For this, Bellcore have scanned 500,000 pages of post-1987 ACS journals, and have re-processed the typesetting tapes from these journals into the SGML format for indexing and searching. They have set-up an electronic database containing approximately 100,000 articles, representing 500,000 pages of journal articles, at the Cornell U Mann Library for access over Local Area Networks by Cornell chemists. University College London (UCL-CS) has been involved with the CORE project since 1988, relying heavily on the work of Bellcore, and using the ACS data. Their CODA Project work, supported by the British Library Research and Development Department, provides facilities similar to the CORE project, but has concentrated on additional areas covering the use of ODA as a distribution medium and the usage of relatively low-bandwidth networks such as the ISDN. This paper discusses the way the database is set up - which involves conversion from a SGML representation into an ODA one, the methods of indexing, the access methods provided, and our user experience. We discuss also the motivation of many of our implementation choices. Because of ACS constraints, the CODA data cannot be made available outside the University of London.

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