Hi,
I thought some members of this list might be interested in the following,
which I've been given permission to post to this list. Apologies if you've
received this already through other routes.
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Royal Society of Chemistry Digital Journals Archive
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An opportunity has arisen for the JISC to purchase a perpetual license for
the Royal Society of Chemistry's Digital Journal Archive. The JISC will then
be in a position to allow access to this archive at a much reduced cost then
would otherwise be possible.
As part of this process the JISC would be very grateful for an indication of
those institutions which would be interested in accessing this valuable
archive.
The JISC would very grateful if all interested institutions could complete
an online response form at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?
name=form&formid=1138576531.
* The Archive
The archive will contain all articles published by the Royal Society (and
its forerunner societies) from 1841 (the first issue of Memoirs and
Proceedings of the Chemical Society) to 1996. It is estimated the backfile
will contain about 210,000 articles in 1,200,000 pages.
The articles will be available via issue contents lists. They will also be
accessible from full-text searches of the PDF files and by more specific
searches of the bibliographic information and (from 1966 to 1996) abstract.
A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) will be assigned to each article. This
will allow the DOI to be used as another access route to the article.
In addition, the references in the 1990-1996 articles will contain
"reference links" to full text and CAS abstracts, where available, similar
to that now offered for the 1997-2003 articles.
The articles in the backfile will be delivered to customers on the web in
the same way, using the same system, as the "current data" (1997 onwards).
* Access
The archive will be hosted by the Royal Society, though individual
institutions will be able to host the archive should they wish. It is
envisaged that institutions which choose to access the materials via the
Royal Society's interface would pay a service charge to the Royal Society,
the service charge is approximately £500 per annum.
Institutions would not have to pay for the content which JISC would make
available to the community free of charge.
* Next Steps
The JISC would be grateful for expressions of interest in this proposal to
help assess likely take up of this offer.
Please advise us whether your institution would be interested in the digital
journal archive by completing the online response form at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=form&formid=1138576531
* Further Information
Further information on this proposal can be obtained from Liam Earney, JISC
Collections Manager (Tel: 020 7848 1716; Email: mailto:[log in to unmask])
Further details of the archive can be found on the Royal Society of
Chemistry's web site at www.rsc.org/archive/.
Kind regards,
Liam Earney
Collections Manager
Joint Information Systems Committee
King's College London
Strand Bridge House
3rd Floor
138-142 Strand
London WC2R 1HH
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1716
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2939
www.jisc.ac.uk/collections/
Cheers
Lesley
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Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant,
Learning and Information Services,
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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