THOMSON SCIENTIFIC ADDS MORE THAN 1.25 MILLION FULL TEXT LINKS TO WEB OF SCIENCE FROM THE JSTOR SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARCHIVE
Philadelphia, PA USA-London UK - October 4, 2005 — Today, Thomson Scientific announced that mutual subscribers to the Web of Science® component of ISI Web of KnowledgeSM and JSTOR can now link directly from Web of Science to full-text articles in the JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive. Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
The links to the JSTOR content significantly bolsters the already substantial Web of Science links to full text, adding links to more than 1.25 million articles. The JSTOR content also greatly enhances Web of Science links to the full text of retrospective content of arts and humanities journal articles.
The JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive is multidisciplinary and offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and articles as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
Web of Science is a major component of ISI Web of Knowledge—the powerful Web-based platform that offers seamless access to the highest quality content, evaluation tools, and bibliographic management products. Web of Science enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary bibliographic information from the world’s most prestigious scholarly journals back to 1900. The unique Web of Science feature—cited reference searching—allows users to navigate forward, backward, and through the literature to uncover the information relevant to their work, and to learn who is citing their work and the impact they (or their colleagues) are having on the global research community.
“JSTOR greatly increases the number of links to the full text of our backfile content,” said Phil Heller, senior director of linkage business development, Thomson Scientific. “Its backfile depth is in part what makes Web of Science such a powerful tool for academic, government and corporate libraries worldwide. The links to full text further strengthen this invaluable resource,” added Heller.
“Librarians have long struggled with increasing subscription costs and tighter budgets, while at the same time having to balance patrons’ demands for more materials and services. The JSTOR archive is one solution to these challenges,” said Keith MacGregor, executive vice president of Academic & Government Markets, Thomson Scientific. “Our linking to the JSTOR full-text archive allows us to similarly assist our customers in maximizing the use of all their collections.”
About JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain
a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to
these journals as widely as possible. Originally conceived as a project at The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR began as an effort to ease the increasing
problems faced by libraries seeking to provide adequate shelf space for the
long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Because of JSTOR's archival mission,
there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published
journal issue and the content available in JSTOR. For more information, visit
www.jstor.org
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