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Re: Web of Science, an Enabling Architecture
Peter Boyce's eloquent description of the potentiality of systems of data such as provided for the astrophysicists does require us to think about the value we place on this type of functionality as compared to our more traditional methods of information delivery in print. However, nothing I have seen in the WOS product or in the ISI announcements of future linking between ISI's bibliographic data and the publishers' growing body of electronic full-text leads me to think that this degree of rich functionality will be available for the data stored in the backfiles. Nor is the degree of linking in that data so much richer than that which was provided in the CD versions of the same data as to justify the incredibly high prices ISI charges for access to that same data. This, in my opinion, is especially true if the customer intends to run the Intranet version of WOS and will be bearing the cost of the the CPU usage and disk storage for all of this interconnected data and indexing. If that customer has already paid for the right to access this comparable content in other formats in the years leading up to the decision to put the data on a local server, then, I think, there should be considerably more recognition given to how much that customer has paid for access to that content up to that point. --Michele Newberry ****************************************************************** Michele Newberry Assistant Director for Library Services 352/392-9020 Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) fax 352/392-9185 2002 NW 13th Street, Suite 320 http://www.fcla.edu Gainesville, FL 32609 fclmin@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu ******************************************************************
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