FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Jacqueline H. Trolley
(215) 386-0100 ext. 1449
E-mail: jtrolley{at}isinet.com

Philadelphia, PA - December 7, 1998 - The Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI*) today announced a collaboration to build hypertext links between the electronic resources provided by ISI and by Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press. Part of the ISI Links initiative, the collaboration provides the technology to permit users to navigate from the ISI Web of ScienceSM, a multidisciplinary bibliographic database tool, to participating HighWire publishers' full text journal content. The HighWire-produced journals include more than 100 life science and biomedical titles published by a core group of prestigious professional and scholarly societies. Among those titles are the widely known publications Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The agreement signed by ISI and HighWire enables subscribers of the Web of Science to link directly from the bibliographic record and abstract in the Web of Science to the full text of materials currently available through participating HighWire publishers. In addition, as a part of the agreement, all HighWire-based individual journal subscribers will be able to link directly from the references or citations published within a HighWire-produced journal article to the citation record and related records as found in the ISI resource.

HighWire users may also access Related Records®, a functionality unique to the ISI product which shows additional items that have a cited reference in common with the original source article.

"Live, real-time linking of navigational and bibliographical tools with the literature itself is one of the most significant developments of online publishing," said Michael A. Keller, Stanford University Librarian and Publisher of HighWire Press. "HighWire can and does create internal hot links, but extending links to external tools such as the ISI Web of Science provides a much-needed level of flexibility and access for researchers and others."

"ISI currently offers its Web of Science users a variety of internal and external links that enhance their ability to access scholarly information," said Richard Newman, Senior Vice President, Business Development, ISI. "HighWire Press, through its partnerships with societies and other publishers, produces a range of highly esteemed journals to which researchers need access. This agreement with HighWire will offer Web of Science users the ability to extend their desktop access to the full-text content of some of the world's most prestigious scholarly journals."

The Institute for Scientific Information has most recently announced similar agreements with the following publishers: Academic Press, Catchword, Ltd., OCLC, John Hopkins University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). In addition, ISI has agreements in place with the American Institute of Physics (AIP), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer-Verlag, and Stockton Press. For more complete details relating to the ISI Links initiative, visit the URL http://www.isinet.com/isilinks/isilinks.html

The Web of Science provides Web access to the ISI Citation Databases: Science Citation Index Expanded(tm), Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index®. These databases collectively index more than 8,000 journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references. Available in any combination, these databases are updated on a weekly basis.

HighWire Press, a unit of the Stanford University Libraries, provides electronic publishing services for scholarly societies as publishers, specifically targeting those in science, technology, and medicine. Launched in 1995, HighWire's primary aim was to ensure that such publishers would lead the transition toward use of new technologies for scientific communication. As a research university with an extraordinary life science research faculty and an excellent medical school and hospitals, Stanford had a natural concern in the economics of providing high-quality research material to their user community. The journals hosted by HighWire are correspondingly focused towards scientific content and are among the highest-impact journals in the literature. HighWire's partners include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Heart Association, American Physical Society, American Physiological Society, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society for Clinical Investigation, British Medical Association, Genetics Society of America, National Academy of Sciences, Oxford University Press, and Rockefeller University Press.

Journals published online through HighWire Press are assured of a Web publishing system with 7 x 24 uptime and worldwide distribution over the public Internet and a private "overnet" in many countries. Its powerful navigation, rich hyperlinking, high-resolution, full-color graphics and other features enhance the content of the journals and are usually available to readers days or weeks before hardcopy of the journal can arrive.

The Institute for Scientific Information is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and has offices worldwide. ISI produces information databases for researchers, information specialists, and administrators in diverse fields: chemistry, technology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, engineering and business. These products are available in a variety of formats with significant emphasis on Web-based delivery.

In addition to the Web of Science, ISI provides a number of current awareness products, including Current Contents®, a journal-based current awareness database that is available on the Web via Current Contents ConnectTM. ISI offers alerting services and a line of structure databases for organic chemists. The ISI document delivery service, ISI Document SolutionSM, and a range of bibliographic management tools, complement all of its products.

Today, ISI maintains the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary, bibliographic database of research information in the world. This database covers over 16,000 international journals, books and proceedings. A technologically advanced company, ISI is able to implement computerized approaches to product development and rapidly bring to market efficient electronic products.

For more information about ISI or its products, visit our site on the Web at http://www.isinet.com or direct an e-mail to sales{at}isinet.com, or write, call, or fax:

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