So far, each publisher is coming up with its own variation on access restrictions, involving IP address limits, passwords, or authentication scripts. The Library is quickly learning to handle each of these variations, but hopes the day comes soon when publishers start using standardized security setups. The Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science , produced at the University of Chicago and published by MIT Press, is a major new Web-only journal containing significant computer science research. The site is freely available to anyone, but MIT asks organizations linking to it to pay a subscription fee. IOP plans to have Web access to all its journals within the next three months, at no additional charge to print subscribers.
Users can only access the titles subscribed to by their institution.
Currently available are such well-known titles as English Literary History , Modern Fiction Studies , and Reviews in American History . At least 20 titles will be available by December 1996. JHU Press is currently offering Project Muse as a package, with one fixed price for access to all the journals. One attractive feature of Project Muse is that it doesn't entirely exclude the general public. Another major asset is Muse's full indexing of articles.