We are also pleased to have participated in the process as a charter member of the International DOI Foundation and a member of the DOI-X committee. ISI will expand linking methods to take advantage of the service and provide additional options for customers to reach publisher servers. Wait and See Difficulties in implementing a successful, comprehensive linking service have mainly stemmed from getting publisher permissions and access to publisher Web sites. This publisher-led development could solve that problem, assuming the publishers offer flexible and workable access. It could also challenge existing services by database aggregators such as SilverPlatter and ISI or even supermarket search services like Dialog and Ovid, by producing a situation in which users and the librarians or information professionals who tend to their data needs end up substituting access to leading publisher titles for access through abstracting services.
End users are notoriously quick to form judgments of services.
Nevertheless, this is a major step toward giving users what they want the way they want it.