The University of Illinois Digital Library Initiative (DLI) has offered scientific publishers a unique opportunity to participate in a digital library research project oriented toward answering research questions of great interest to publishers. This discussion will represent the views of the publishing partners who contributed to the DLI project. Participation was very rewarding for the publishers and the individuals who attended the annual project briefings and learned from the renowned Illinois research team. In preparing this article, a review was performed of quarterly reports submitted to the National Science Foundation since the project began in 1994. Also consulted were other publishers who contributed materials to the project to obtain their impressions of the preliminary outcomes of the project. I am grateful for their contributions.
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