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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.

Mithu Mukherjee
Communications Executive
Oxford Journals
Oxford University Press

# (0)1865 354471
Email: mithu.mukherjee@oupjournals.org

Visit the website at http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/collections/archives.html