Re: Per View E-Journal Article Services

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Arline Moore has posted the following message to other lists.  It is
reproduced below FYI, further to the discussion about pay-per-view
articles.  Thanks to Ms. Moore for very timely information.

I thought we had learned that at least one of the companies below was
distributing without permission of copyright holders and was thus
experiencing some legal difficulties -- but I may have been misinformed on
this matter.  In any case, it behooves us to find out that the providers
of such services are in fact operating with legitimate rights to
distribute the articles.  Please ask them before you do business with
them.

Ann Okerson

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:18:49 CDT
From: amoore@post.cis.smu.edu
Reply-To: arl-ejournal@arl.org
To: Multiple recipients of list <arl-ejournal@arl.org>
Subject: Re: Per View E-Journal Article Services

In addition to Northern Light, here are a  couple of other similar
services, including, of course, "Uncover."

Electric Library: http://www.elibrary.com/

"Search through more than 150 full-text newspapers, nearly 800 full-text
magazines, two international news-wires, classic books, maps, thousands of
photographs, as well as major works of literature and art." Not an
Internet search engine, but a fee-based on-line service like DIALOG,
available over the web, with an easy-to-use interface.

KnowledgeLink infoMarket: http://www.infoMarket.k-link.com/
 
"Choose to search from multiple data sources including more than 75
newswires, 300 newspapers, 819 news-letters, 6882 journals, and 11 million
companies; searching is FREE - there are no subscription or online fees;
you pay only for specific documents you choose to purchase." Some of the
database sources include Wilson, IAC, EyeQ, UMI, COMTEX, Hoovers, many
more. KnowledgeLink Interactive, Inc acquired assets and licenses from
IBM's InfoMarket service, now discontinued.

Northern Light: http://www.northernlight.com/
 
Combines Web search results with "Special Collection sources [that]
provide you with high caliber information often lacking on the Web." "The
Special Collection of quality sources represents over 2,900 journals,
reviews, books, magazines and news wires not readily found on the Web."
"Prices for Special Collection sources range from $1.00 to $4.00 per
article. You pay only for what you actually retrieve." Considered one of
the best new general Web search engines, even without the "Special
Collection."

UnCover: http://uncweb.carl.org/

"An online article delivery service, table of contents database, and
keyword index to nearly 17,000 periodicals. Over 7 million articles are
available through a simple online order system. 5000 citations are added
daily. Articles appear in UnCover at the same time the issue is delivered
to your library or news-stand." Searching is free. Articles can be
delivered by fax, from $10.00 per article plus copyright royalty fees
which vary. The UnCover Reveal serv-ice ($25/year) pro-vides journal
table-of-contents via email.

Arline L. Moore <amoore@mail.smu.edu>
Periodicals Cataloger
CUL, Fondren Library
P.O.Box 750135
Dallas,TX 75275-0135 
214/768-3697 fax 214/768-2337