Barbara,
In what way does this improve the service we offer to our users or improve
the general access to information for everyone?
Will the documents supplied using this technique be cheaper?
Regards,
John Smith.
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Barbara Lincoln wrote:
> Apologies for cross postings
>
> The British Library, Adobe and Elsevier Science set standard for secure EDD
>
> Groundbreaking work by the British Library and Adobe®, unveiled at Online
> 2002, brings together the Library’s expertise and Adobe’s encryption
> technology to set a new standard for secure electronic document delivery
> (EDD) services.
>
> The British Library, one of the world’s leading document suppliers, has
> integrated Adobe Content Server® encryption and Adobe Acrobat® eBook
> Reader® software into its electronic document delivery operations, allowing
> customers of the Library’s inside service to order PDF files of articles
> from Elsevier Science and other publishers on a strict pay-per-view basis.
> Until now publishers and document supply companies have had difficulty
> enforcing copyright and managing rights in the digital environment. Working
> together, the British Library and Elsevier Science have used Adobe’s
> technology to answer publishers’ needs – ensuring the secure delivery of
> articles.
>
> The British Library’s approach has won the endorsement of Elsevier Science,
> the world’s leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical
> information products and services. Elsevier Science will make articles from
> 1,700 of its titles available in PDF format to the Library’s document
> supply customers. Titles covered by the agreement include well-known
> journals such as The Lancet, Tetrahedron and Brain Research, through to
> more specialist periodicals.
>
> The British Library can now supply almost 1 million PDF files of journal
> articles from over 2,500 key titles from the top research publishers
> (including 800 titles covered by separate deals with S. Karger AG and
> Kluwer Academic Publishers).
>
> For further details visit the British Library stand at Online 2002
> (Olympia, London) or go to www.bl.uk
>
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