Electronic Collections Online enables libraries to subscribe to large collections of academic journals, from many publishers, and access them remotely through a single World Wide Web interface that supports cross-journal searching and extensive browsing. More than 650 journals are under contract to be added to Electronic Collections Online. Additional content agreements are expected in the coming months. Libraries using Electronic Collections Online subscribe to journals directly with publishers or subscription agents and access them remotely through the World Wide Web at OCLC's headquarters in Dublin, Ohio. End users of Electronic Collections Online can search, browse and display article citations for all journals available through the service and display abstracts or complete articles for journals their library subscribes to.
Users can browse lists of journals, selected issues or a selected topic area.
Electronic Collections Online combines the cost benefits associated with remote access to data with the advantages of local collection management, reducing information costs for libraries by centralizing storage and access and enabling libraries to share the cost of loading, archiving and providing access to their electronic journal collections. Kluwer Academic Publishers is an international scientific publisher with offices in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, and Boston, Massachusetts. Its list comprises approximately 320 research journals in natural and applied sciences, medicine, social sciences and the humanities. Each database will include information from the current year, plus the previous three years. We think this is a win-win for both companies.