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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
<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
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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.