Rights Management and Security in the Electronic Library

Developing a technical solution to manage intellectual property rights is a cornerstone in the Electronic Library Project of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). This is a collaborative project between ISI and the IBM Digital Library group at the Almaden Research Center. Our system incorporates mechanisms that protect the information content owners (for example, publishers) as well as the end-users of the system. Techniques to ensure information integrity, assurances of the authenticity of journal articles, confidentiality of usage data, and management of copyright are detailed. General security features are also presented.