This financial arrangement was initiated long before the Copyright Clearance Center provided a service for the collection of royalty payments. Today, ISI pays the CCC when direct contracts are not in force. If a publisher will not permit document delivery from its journals ISI will, of course, honor its decision. All members of the information community are well aware that the industry is going through a period of great change. It is difficult and expensive to make the transition from the reality of print collections to the vision of the future, the virtual library.
Primary publishers are under great pressure.
Revenue sources are shifting and some publishers have raised copyright fees. ISI continues to discuss this situation with the primary publishers and have pointed out that rapid and steep increases will not result in revenue increases but will only generate more problems. Most STM publishers are aware of this and are being responsive during this period of change. Full-text copies of virtually any article or conference report published in the English language will be available. Subject areas include the physical sciences, engineering, biology and medi- cine.