Dear All,
Following on from the earlier press release, I thought the following response regarding the timescale might be of interest. Apologies for crossposting etc.
Regards
Doug
Douglas Knock
Assistant Librarian, Reader Services,
Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
From: Kiley ,Robert
Sent: 12 May 2006 10:52
To:
Cc: Knock ,Douglas;
Subject: FW: Pubmedcentral - press release, timescale
Many thanks for your mail about the backfile digitisation project - and specifically when specific journal titles will be available.
Though this is a good question to ask - it is very difficult to answer!
The "go-live" date for any of the 17 journals we are digitising under the auspices of this project has a number of variables - size and quality of the paper archive; the ease by which current files can be ingested; the speed and commitment of the participating publisher in responding to queries etc - that any date is subject to change.
The easiest way to see the status of any title is to look at the project web site at http://library.wellcome.ac.uk.backfiles or simply go to http://www.pubmedcentral.gov and see which titles are available.
Thus far under this project the following titles are "live" - though not all the backfiles have been digitised. Indeed, in the case of the BMJ (with an estimated archive of 1.8 million pages) we do not expect this to be completed for at least another 12 months. That said, as chunks of the archive get digitised, they will be released onto the site.]
Live titles:
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Annals of Surgery - live dates 1919 - 2005 (1885 - 1918 will follow shortly)
Biochemical Journal - live dates 1906 -
BMJ - live dates 1998 - [see note above]
Journal of Physiology - live dates 1913 - 1997 [1878-1912 and 1998 - will follow over the next few months]
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine - live 1968 to date. [Archive, back to 1809, will be digitised and made available (in chunks) over the next 12-18 months
Medical History - live 1957 -
Next titles
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I would anticipate that over the next 3-6 months we will also release:
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
British Journal of Pharmacology
British Journal of General Practice
Journal of Anatomy
If you have any further queries, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Best regards
Robert
Robert Kiley
Head of Systems Strategy
Wellcome Library.
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Sent: 11 May 2006 10:30
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Subject: Pubmedcentral - press release concerning launch of Medical journals backfiles digitisation project
Dear All,
The following press release / information may be of interest to you. Apologies for cross-posting or if you are already aware of this resource.
Please feel free to pass this information on.
Kind Regards
Doug
Douglas Knock
Assistant Librarian, Reader Services,
Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
210 Euston Road,
London
NW1 2BE.
Tel +44 (0) 20 7611 7260
Fax +44 (0) 20 7611 8369
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The Wellcome Trust is a registered charity, no. 210183.
Its sole Trustee is the Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England, no.2711000, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
Press Release
Free Online Access to nearly 200 years of Medical Research
Complete back issues covering nearly 200 years of historically significant biomedical journals are being made freely available online as a result of a landmark project launched today at the Wellcome Trust.
On completion, the back files project will deliver over three million pages of medical journals to the archive free to anyone through standard search tools such as PubMed and Google.
The initiative was developed through a partnership between the Wellcome Trust, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and a number of medical journal publishers (listed in Notes for Editors).
The full list of participating journals*:
Title Start-date Publisher
Anesthesia Progress 1954 Allen Press
Annals of Surgery 1885 LiWW
Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng. 1947 RCSE
Biochemical Journal 1906 Portland Press
BMJ - British Medical Journal 1853 BMJ Publishing Group
British Journal of Cancer 1947 Nature Publishing Group
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 1974 Blackwell Publishing
British Journal of General Practice 1952 RCGP
British Journal of Pharmacology 1946 Nature Publishing Group
Clinical & Experimental Immunology 1966 Blackwell Publishing
Epidemiology and Infection 1901 Cambridge University Press
Immunology 1958 Blackwell Publishing
International Journal of Experimental Pathology 1920 Blackwell Publishing
Journal of Anatomy 1866 Blackwell Publishing
Journal of Physiology 1878 Blackwell Publishing
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1809 RSM Press
Medical History 1957 UCL
* Current journal name - some journals have had several name changes
In addition to the journals being digitized under this project, the NLM is also digitising additional journals, including the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the EMBO Journal
JISC - the Joint Information Systems Committee - is a joint committee of the UK further and higher education funding bodies and is responsible for supporting the innovative use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support learning, teaching, and research. It is best known for providing the JANET network, a range of support, content and advisory services, and a portfolio of high-quality resources.
This project is one of six digitisation projects being managed by JISC with funding from HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England). The JISC programme represents a total investment of some £10m in the digitisation of high-quality online content, including sound, moving pictures, newspapers, census data, journals and parliamentary papers for use by the UK further and higher education communities.
Further information about the JISC digitisation programme can be found at: www.jisc.ac.uk/digisation_home.html
The Wellcome Trust is the most diverse biomedical research charity in the world, spending about £450 million every year both in the UK and internationally to support and promote research that will improve the health of humans and animals. The Trust was established under the will of Sir Henry Wellcome, and is funded from a private endowment, which is managed with long-term stability and growth in mind.
The Wellcome Library is one of the world's greatest collections for the study of the history of medicine. The print, manuscript audio, film, pictorial and digital collections are a national treasure and an unrivalled intellectual resource. See http://library.wellcome.ac.uk <http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/>
The Wellcome Trust was awarded the first SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications by SPARC Europe (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), for its work on open access. SPARC Europe represents over 100 European research-led university libraries from 14 European countries.
National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. The collections stand at more than 8 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old and rare medical works. The Library's collection may be consulted in the reading room or requested on interlibrary loan.
For 125 years, the Library published the Index Medicus®, a monthly subject/author guide to articles in 4000 journals. This information, and much more, is today available in PubMed®, freely accessible via the World Wide Web. PubMed has more than 16 million MEDLINE journal article references and abstracts going back to the mid-1960's with another 1.5 million references back to the early 1950's. Additional citations are being added from the back files of journals scanned for PubMed Central.
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