THE UNICATS APPROACH - NEW MANAGEMENT FOR BOOKS IN THE INFORMATION MARKET

Universitat Karlsruhe, UniversitatsbibliothekD-76128 Karlsruhe, Germanyemail {pulkowski, schuette}@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.deAbstractThe WWW offers an increasing number of services for searching andacquiring scientific literature. New kinds of information providers areavailable online, traditional libraries follow and offer their services viathe WWW. However, this development will not come without a price:Literature supply is changing into an open and competitive informa-tion market bringing new challenges to the user. To derive the wholebenefit from the new situation in the electronic literature market, theuser needs assistance from an integration environment. This environ-ment regains the transparency in the information market so that theuser receives comparable offers, and integrates different services ofscientific literature search and delivery under a uniform user interface.To provide such an environment is the aim of the UniCats project.