The videotape will document the experiences of the Project GAIN libraries. Both will be made available free to the participating libraries, and will be offered for sale at cost or slightly above cost to interested others. The Journal of Fluids Engineering, published by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, has begun offering its readers the opportunity to obtain electronic files, via the Internet, of the full data on which some of its published research papers are based. It appears that many readers already are using the service. The service was initiated on an experimental basis through the cooperation of the Scholarly Communications Project at Virginia Tech, which publishes several electronic journals, and the University Libraries, which contributed the storage space.
Early indications are that readers are using the service.
The retrievals came from more than thirty sites, including sites in Germany, Singapore, Taiwan, Chile, Canada and the United States. Most appeared to be from university sites. At least 5 million corrections are expected. Authority control is necessary for ensuring that all access points for a particular name or subject are consistent and that users can search online catalogs efficiently. Variant forms of the same personal or corporate name or subject, changes in cataloging rules, coding mistakes, and typographical errors mean that headings need to be corrected on an ongoing basis to maintain consistency.