The journal publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing 
 
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"... in Spring 1997 we sent an e-mail questionnaire ... Two big surprises arrived with (the) responses. ... The second was that, within the 83 densely packed pages of unsolicited comments, there was a strong demand for links from the Inspec database to our and other publishers' full text." 

Dixon, A, The Wannabee Culture: Why No-One Does What They Used to Do. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Winter 1998