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Digitizing Back Issues of Journals

   NLM's backfile scanning project

Medical Journals Backfiles Digitization Project

Overview

The Wellcome Trust, in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) are working together on a project to digitize the complete backfiles of a number of important and historically significant medical journals. The digitized content will be made freely available on the Internet – via Pumped Central – and augment the content already available there. The Wellcome Library exists as a resource to provide access to the documentary record of medicine. This project is one way of translating that vision into the digital age.

The Open Collections Program (OCP)
  The Harvard University Library Open Collections Program was established in November 2002 with a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

The goal of the Harvard Libraries Open Collections Program is to increase the availability and use of textual and visual historical resources for teaching, learning, and research by selecting resources from the Harvard Libraries in broad topic areas, putting them in digital format, and providing access to them through the web and the Harvard library catalogs.

University of California Press now offers electronic versions of almost all of its journal titles and over 1400 books online, many of them out of print.

1400 online editions are available here through a partnership with the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. Nearly 400 of the titles are available to the general public; the rest are for University of California faculty, staff, and students only

HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content.

©2004 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.

  Watch "Free Culture", a flash presentation.    (PDF)  

       Open Audiobooks Project

   The purpose of this conference is to examine issues concerning intellectual property and technology transfer. The conference will provide a public discussion of the impact of intellectual property protection on making public goods developed at universities available to the developing world. (©2003-04 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota)

  massachusetts institute of technology

Welcome to MIT OpenCourseWare a free, open, publication of MIT Course Materials. We invite you to view all the courses available at this time.

© 2004 Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A philanthropy serving society through biomedical research and science education.
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American Library Association talk

  T. J. Walker, University of Florida (26 June 2004)

This talk describes how the Florida Entomological Society and the Entomological Society of America have taken different routes in addressing the transition from the traditional, paper-based system of journal publishing to one that is Web-based and free to all users. It was part of a session of the ACRL Science & Technology Section, during the 2004 summer conference of the American Library Association, Orlando, Florida.

Two routes to open access    [PowerPoint presentation; 1606 KB]

Explanatory notes    [PDF file; 28 KB]

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