Subject: Internet Delivery of Current Contents(R)


Philadelphia, PA, USA - June 27, 1997 - The Institute for
Scientific Information(R) (ISI) today announced the availability of
a Web-based implementation of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) delivery
of Current Contents on Diskette(R) (CC on Diskette)(R) and Current
Contents on Diskette with Abstracts. The new delivery option will
allow subscribers to use their Web browsers to easily download
weekly data issues from the Internet. CC on Diskette customers will
connect with ISI's FTP server and transfer the appropriate weekly
Current Contents issues directly to their computer.

CC on Diskette and CC on Diskette with Abstracts subscribers will
be offered FTP delivery for their weekly subscription beginning in
June. Current subscribers will be invited to review the FTP
delivery option during an eight week evaluation period.

Receiving the data via a Web-based implementation of FTP will offer
substantially faster delivery, especially in some geographic
regions, and will eliminate diskette delivery problems associated
with traditional postal delivery. The Current Contents on Diskette
and Current Contents on Diskette with Abstracts data accessed via
FTP will be the same as the data that customers now receive in
their weekly diskette issues.

"ISI is committed to serving the information needs of the global
research community," said Merle Jaffe, Vice President, Current
Awareness Products, ISI. "Offering the Web-based FTP delivery
option will allow Current Contents users to receive the data in a
more efficient and timely manner. We will continue to implement
product enhancements and updated delivery options for Current
Contents to service both existing and new customers."

Each week, Current Contents presents the contents pages of current
issues of the world's scholarly and technical journal literature,
then adds value to that information via the addition of helpful
indexes; author abstracts; author keywords and the proprietary
KeyWords Plus(R); and reprint author and publisher addresses.
Originally published as a print digest for the life sciences,
Current Contents has evolved over the last forty years into a
multidisciplinary, multi-platform product that is produced in seven
editions: Life Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Agriculture, Biology &
Environmental Sciences; Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences;
Engineering, Computing & Technology; Social & Behavioral Sciences;
and Arts & Humanities.

The new FTP delivery mode will be available to CC on Diskette and CC
on Diskette with Abstracts subscribers who receive either the Windows
or the Macintosh 4.0 versions. In order to receive FTP delivery of
Current Contents, a subscriber must have Internet access and a Web
browser (Netscape Navigator, MS Explorer, or a compatible browser).

To access the Current Contents data, the user simply accesses an
assigned URL and clicks on a data issue. The Web browser will then
initiate an FTP file transfer and allow the user to save the file
to his or her local hard drive or network server.  ISI plans to keep
the six most recent weeks of data on its server to make sure that all
subscribers have ample time to transfer the data.

The Institute for Scientific Information, headquartered in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, has been creating innovative
information tools for the scientific community for forty years. Its
line of advanced research products, available in diverse media,
provides fast and effective ways to search the world's journal
literature.

In addition to Current Contents, ISI produces comprehensive citation
indexes such as the Science Citation Index(R); and a line of research
tools for organic chemists that includes the new ChemPrep(TM) Reaction
CD-ROM. Ordering of full-text articles covered in the ISI database is
available through the ISI document delivery service, ISI Document
Solution(TM).

For more information about ISI, visit our site on the World Wide
Web at http://www.isinet.com, e-mail sales@isinet.com, or write,
call, or fax:

Institute for Scientific Information
3501 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
Telephone: 1-800-336-4474
or +001-215-386-0100
Fax: +001-215-386-2911