Objective The objective of the project is to develop and test a prototype of a fast electronic document ordering and document delivery system based on an already existing digital journal image archive and in-house delivery system.Although the facilities for on-line searching and on-line ordering have dramatically improved over the last years, the access to the actual documents still requires a substantial amount of time. The growing significance of on-line ordering has inevitably led to an increased need for rapid provision of documents.The project aims to demonstrate the technical feasibility of the setting up of a document delivery service in the area of chemical journals by combining on-line searching, electronic ordering and electronic delivery. The system should be fast (5 minutes from order to [fax] delivery), user friendly , reasonably priced and economically viable.Impact and expected results:The significance of the project lies in the high speed of document ordering and delivery and in the size of the database - a thirty-year archive of chemical information, scanned to high standards - now shown by the prototype to be potentially available for distribution on demand, over different channels, to anywhere in Europe.The expected primary beneficiaries are the libraries and the end-users. At the end of the project a workshop will be organised. DeliverablesDeliverables received to-date are of confidential or restricted classification because of commercial implications. Apart from the implemented prototype, they include:Detailed project specification;Delivery component descriptions;Receiving and administration components;In-house database and PC order-ing report;Two reports on On-line host ordering.Still to be delivered are: Results of user questionnaires and recommendations;Report on alpha tests;User statistics;Final project report.Technical approach:FASTDOC comprised twelve work-packages, as follows:Specifications, with project plan, hardware and software acquisitions and system development;Delivery Component, being the installation of software tools for the integration of fax servers;Receiving/Administration Components to install and test the LAN, mail server and administration computer;In-house Database & PC Ordering to install ordering component on local systems with connection to public networks;On-line Host Ordering to enhance document order functions of the STN host retrieval software and create order transfer components using an X.400 mailbox.;Alpha Testing of order and delivery components;On-line Host Implementation by installing the ordering system on the on-line host;Beta testing of the fully operational system;Implementation as a routine service in the partner libraries;User Questionnaire for better understanding of user demand relating to a global fast document delivery service;Statistical Evaluations of user behaviour;Dissemination of Results, culminating, at the end of the project, with a specially convened workshop.Tests will be carried out in Germany, Spain and Greece with the involvement of associated partners. Key issues:- examination of user requirements, and national infrastructures;- development and integration of delivery, ordering and administrative components;- copyright;- user statistics. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases Programme(s) FP3-LIBRARIES - Specific programme of research and technological development (EEC) in the field of telematic systems in areas of general interest - Libraries -, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 3.14 - Access to and/or delivery of documents Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Beilstein Institut EU contribution No data Address Varrentrappstraße 40-42 60486 Frankfurt am Main Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona Spain EU contribution No data Address Gran Via, 585 08007 Barcelona See on map Total cost No data Conware Computer Consulting GmbH Germany EU contribution No data Address Killisfeldstraße 64 76227 Karlsruhe See on map Total cost No data Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftlich-Technische Information mbH Germany EU contribution No data Address 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen See on map Total cost No data Hellenic National Documentation Centre Greece EU contribution No data Address 48 Vas. Constantinou Ave 11635 Athens See on map Total cost No data Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Spain EU contribution No data Address Edifici A, Campus Universitari 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona See on map Total cost No data Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Spain EU contribution No data Address Jordi Girona Salgado, 31 08034 Barcelona See on map Total cost No data Universitat Ramon Llull Spain EU contribution No data Address Via Augusta, 390 08017 Barcelona See on map Total cost No data Universitat Rovira i Vergili - Biblioteca Spain EU contribution No data Address Comte de Rius, 2 43003 Tarragona See on map Total cost No data University Library of Creta Greece EU contribution No data Address 17 Dimitrakakis St 74100 Rethymnon See on map Total cost No data University of Patras Greece EU contribution No data Address Rion 26500 Patras See on map Total cost No data