I am currently working on a project to put one of our journals online via
WWW for 1997. We are planning to make the journal available through a
site license with access controlled by password. Our preference is to
issue the library with a master password which would then be passed
on to the relevant scientists who would use it to register themselves as
users.

Later this year we plan to offer a three month free trial which, in order
to test the subsequent subscription arrangement (above), we would
restrict to librarians who would be issued with a temporary password
for distribution to users.

I would be very interested to hear the views of any librarians about
whether or not this sort of involvement at the free trial stage or upon
subscription would be welcome.

Phil Mestecky
Market Development Manager
Elsevier Science Ltd
The Boulevard
Langford Lane
Kidlington
Oxford OX5 1GB
UK

p.mestecky@elsevier.co.uk
tel: +44 1865 843784
fax: +44 1865 843931