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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