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Following up on a post last year from Leslie Crashaw on LIS-E re free journal archives from the Pscyhonomic Society. (Psychonomic Society Journals Archive available from 1993-2000. Wed 4/14/2004 10:36 AM) Leslie said: "Journals archives are beginning to appear all over the place, but finding out about their existence is not always easy." FEBS Letters seems to be available free as far as its backfiles (archive volumes) from 1968, vol. 1 no. 1 to a date I can't easily determine to everyone at Science Direct. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00145793 Is there a list of other titles at Elsevier or other publishers who have generally not done much publicity of their free backfile access? These don't seem to be open access journals, but runs of free -archives. I know, for example, that some of the society and association backfiles on the Blackwell's Synergy site are similarly available free-but there doesn't seem to be much notification of this-its sort of stumble on them experience. I'm particularly interested in this practice from commercial publisher sites, even if the titles are society for association titles. Highwire of course is well known for working with its publishers to make extensive archives available. But I suspect several other commercial publishers are doing this as well, perhaps spurred on by contract negotiations with new societies they are signing on or at negotiation time with existing society contracts. There doesn't seem to be a single source for identifying the free archives of such titles. Or, I may have missed where to go to find them. Chuck Hamaker UNC Charlotte Charlotte, NC USA