The Red Sage Project

Communicating Original Research in Chemistry and Related Sciences

“…During 1989−1995, the ACS Publications Division, Bellcore, Chemical Abstracts Service, Cornell University, and Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) collaborated in what became known as the CORE project. , This was an effort to create a prototype digital library at Cornell University using the ACS journals as the data source and software from OCLC as the user interface and back-end system. In 1992−1997, the ACS participated with approximately 20 other publishers in the Red Sage Project to create a prototype electronic library at the University of California at San Francisco. , In the Red Sage Project, RightPages software from Bell Laboratories was used for the user interface and underpinning data structures. Both CORE and Red Sage were reasonably successful; however, the arrival of the World Wide Web made these efforts obsolete before they could be brought to fruition.…”