The participating libraries and publishers in the Netherlands, Germany and the United States of America built and maintain their own document servers. The user searches for articles via a central catalogue of electronically available documents, the WebCAT, hosted at the central shared cataloguing and document ordering system of Pica in Leiden. After retrieving the article the user produces the full text on his screen, irrespective of the place of origin. Amsterdam University Library participated in this project and aims at offering the presentation, printing and downloading of these full texts as a permanent and integrated part of its electronic services. Staff members of the University of Amsterdam can contribute to the WebDOC-collection by supplying their publications to the system.
Publishers provide access to the documents they own, taking into account their commercial interests.
Boy de Haas . The project started in February 1994 and was concluded at the end of June 1996. More information can be found on the Mecano-site .