Providing links to primary publisher content: the ISI Electronic Library Project … and beyond

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Electronic Library Project is a corporate research and development initiative by the Institute for Scientific Information. It offers users access to the information contained in the Current Contents/ Life Sciences database, as well as the full images of those journals to which publishers have given permission and to which the site subscribes. The project has confirmed many basic concepts. However, since the project was launched in 1993, technology has greatly altered the needs and expectations of STM researchers and librarians. Examines the impact of those changes on the project, and the resulting course of developments at ISI.