JISC Collections has licensed a selection of journal archives for perpetual access by member institutions. Currently, these archives must be separately accessed, searched, and browsed on each publisher’s platform, and some are subject to an annual access fee.
One platform, archives of over 600 journals JISC Journal Archives, part of the JISC eCollections service, consolidates the journal archives purchased on behalf of members, to provide a single platform for simple and fast cross-searching and full-text access across more than 600 journals from these publishers: • Brill Over 735,000 pages from more than 100 journals published by Brill, Martinus Nijhoff and VSP before 2000. Subjects covered include humanities, human rights, law, science and the social sciences. • Cambridge University Press (coming soon) Over 350,000 articles from more than 171 journals, covering scientific, technical, medical, social science and humanities content published by the Press between 1827 and 1996. • Institution of Civil Engineers Over 200,000 pages of all the institution’s papers published in 11 journals between 1836 and 2001, and covering every major civil and structural engineering discipline.
• Institute of Physics Over 1.5 million pages from 50 journals, published 1874 – 1998, covering topics as varied as astronomy, mathematics, biosciences and physics. • ProQuest Over 288,000 articles from over 100 arts, humanities and social science journals in the Periodicals Archive Online. • Oxford University Press Over 3 million pages from 144 journals published 1849 – 1995, in subjects including humanities, social sciences, science, medicine and law. • Royal Society of Chemistry Over 1.4 million pages from 55 journals, published 1841 – 2004. Subjects include biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine, physics and chemical sciences. • Taylor & Francis (coming soon) Over 20,000 articles published 1884 – 1996 from the 28 journals in the T&F Planning, Urban and Environment Online Archive. Subjects covered include geography, planning studies, urban studies, architecture and environmental studies. Holdings information for JISC Journal Archives can be viewed at ecollections.mimas.ac.uk/ journals/about.html. Users can browse the journal titles by publisher as well as searching or exploring the journals through an A-Z list. DEVELOPED BY
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