ADONIS—latest developments and its role in the changing publisher/library relationship

Abstract

This article describes recent developments in the ADONIS concept, including technical advances, expansion of services and implications for the future.

ADONIS gathers momentum and faces some new problems

“…The production was also rather cumbersome: published issues were sent to the ADONIS office in Amsterdam for checking in and indexing at Excerpta Medica; the issues then went on to Berlin for scanning; the digital data from the scanner were compressed by a bureau in Berlin then sent to South Wales for manufacture of the disks. The software was pre-Windows as it had been specified in the late 1980s after the trial [3].…”