Oxford Journals launch Humanities Archive

["MUKHERJEE, Mithu" <mithu.mukherjee@oupjournals.org>]

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Oxford Journals launch Humanities Archive

Please find below news which I hope will be of interest to you. Oxford
Journals is launching the Humanities Archive: the first of five backfiles
to be launched by January 2006.

Details of journals to be included, and further information about the
project can be found below, and at the Oxford Journals Website
<http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/collections/archives.html> . 

If you have any further questions about this please feel free to contact
me.

Kind regards

Mithu Mukherjee
Communications Executive
Oxford Journals
Oxford University Press

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July 1, 2005

Oxford Journals launch Humanities Archive

Today Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, announced
the launch of its Humanities Archive: the first of five subject-based
digital backfiles to be launched by early 2006.

With its earliest material dating from 1829, the Humanities Archive
contains over 300,000 articles, including major papers in history, music,
religion, philosophy, literary studies, and linguistics, from Volume 1
Issue 1 of each title to the end of 1995. Journals included in the project
include Essays in Criticism, English Historical Review, Past & Present,
and the Journal of Theological Studies.

The project forms part of Oxford Journals' strategy to increase and
improve access to scholarly information, by ensuring permanent electronic
accessibility to journal content.

'With electronic information now commonplace, readers increasingly expect
to find all journal content online, whether it is today's cutting-edge
research or concepts from the more distant past. This massive digitization
process addresses this growing need for older content', said Richard
Gedye, Sales and Marketing Director, Oxford Journals. He continued: 'Our
aim is two-fold: to increase the availability of important knowledge that
was once previously hard to access and in danger of becoming lost; and to
connect far more quickly with the people who need to read it.'

The Humanities Archive is available for purchase or on subscription from
July 1, 2005.

Four further subject-based archives in Law, Medicine, Science, and Social
Science will be released over the coming months. The Complete Archive,
which includes all 141 journals in the subject-based Archives (with no
duplication of content), and an estimated four million article pages, is
anticipated to be available from January 2006.

Fully-searchable article PDFs with HTML headers and abstracts, and links
to similar articles in each journal are just two of the features of the
collection that will make it an indispensable resource for researchers,
enabling quick and easy access to both current and previously hard-to-find
material. For librarians and information managers, these digital backfiles
will serve to fill gaps in institutional collections, while saving
valuable shelf space and staff time.

Each Archive will be available for outright purchase (either for local
loading or via remote access from the Oxford Journals server) or on annual
subscription. Each Archive contains material published up to December
1995.  Accordingly, from 2006, a current subscription to any journal in
the Archive project will include access to the full text of all volumes
back to January 1996. For the majority of journals this will mean that
current subscribers will gain access to at least one additional year of
full-text content, since most of our journals were launched online
subsequently to 1996.

Special discounts on advance purchase of the Archive are now available.
For further details on this major initiative, including a full list of
titles in each Archive, please visit the Oxford Journals website at
www.collections.oxfordjournals.org/archives.html

Notes to Editors

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the world's largest and most
international of university presses. Founded in 1478, it currently
publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty
countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become familiar
to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly
works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college
textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign
language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals.

Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, publishes over 180 journals covering a
broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in
collaboration with learned societies and other international
organisations. The collection contains some of the world's most
prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the
National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical
Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. For further information
please visit the Oxford Journals website.

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