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NRC-CISTI offers pay-per-article ser­vice for data­base14 May 2008
 
Canada-based National Research Council’s Insti­tute for Sci­en­tific and Tech­ni­cal Infor­ma­tion (NRC-CISTI) has launched Dis­cover, a suite of cur­rent and planned pay-per-article ser­vices. Dis­cover is designed to allow any researcher to search a data­base of more than 20 mil­lion arti­cles for free and pay by credit card to view and print those selected. No pre-registration, user name or pass­word is required.

Each arti­cle costs C$12, plus pub­lisher fees and applic­a­ble taxes. Users see the full and exact cost of items added to their shop­ping carts. Open access arti­cles are avail­able free of any charges. Arti­cles from NRC-CISTI’s elec­tronic col­lec­tion (indi­cated with a green mouse sym­bol) are avail­able for view­ing imme­di­ately. Arti­cles in the print col­lec­tion (indi­cated with a red fly­ing enve­lope sym­bol) must first be scanned, and users receive a link by e-mail when the arti­cle is ready to be viewed and printed. Access to all arti­cles is for one view, one print. Access begins when the link is opened and ends when the link is closed. Users may not save the doc­u­ment to their desktop.

NRC-CISTI is plan­ning to launch a free Dis­cover Alerts ser­vice later in the year. This ser­vice will allow users to reg­is­ter to receive elec­tronic noti­fi­ca­tion of new arti­cles based on search cri­te­ria or jour­nal title. The alerts will be deliv­ered either via e-mail or RSS feeds.”  

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter
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This will be a ser­vice to keep in mind par­tic­u­larly when one is no longer con­nected to a uni­ver­sity or com­pany which pro­vides easy and free doc­u­ment deliv­ery.  While one is at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity, do uti­lize our Doc­u­ment Deliv­ery /Interlibrary Loan ser­vice  — a resource of which we are proud.  Of course, an indi­vid­ual on his own should have access through a pub­lic library.  The price of this new ser­vice  from CISTI seems very reasonable.