Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press (CUP), US, has announced the launch of a digital archive featuring over 20,000 issues of academic journals published by CUP. The Cambridge Journals Digital Archive provides online access to over 160 journals from 1827 to 1996. The archive offers more than 20,000 issues, over 350,000 articles, over [...]
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with publisher M.E. Sharpe to preserve its entire online journals collection of 38 titles. With this inclusion, over 14,000 e-books and e-journals have now been entrusted to the Portico archive.
Through this agreement with Portico, M.E. Sharpe seeks to further its preservation strategy. Since 2005, [...]
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Every BMJ article published since the journal’s first issue in October 1840 is now available online from bmj.com. This was achieved by digitally scanning 824 183 pages of the print journal. It cost about $1 (£0.68; 0.76) a page and was made possible by the extraordinary generosity of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and [...]
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Providing easy access to the knowledge of the past, the de Gruyter Journal Archive makes it possible to monitor the development of academic discourse over the last 200 years and put today’s research results into context. MORE….
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The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 4000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.
The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward [...]
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The Tokyo War Crimes Trials are on par with the Nuremberg trials for their influence on international law. The importance of the “historical record of events leading up to, and including the trials” has resulted in vast collections of documents. This website from Harvard Law’s library contains the papers, letters, and photographs of [...]
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The Library of Congress’ web archives of the 2003 Iraq war offer an overview of the collection, a brief history of why the war began, plus search and browse capabilities. The types of materials in the archives include newspapers, websites, veteran organizations, maps, photos, official government documents, legal materials, scholarly papers, editorial cartoons and [...]
nbsp;http://ajs.library.cmu.edu/
Carnegie Mellon librarians recently digitized the backfile of the American Journal of Science for OA. Thanks to the Scout Report for this summary (via Leslie Chan):
Started in 1818, the American Journal of Science (originally called The American Journal of Science and Arts) is the oldest scientific journal published without interruption in the United States. [...]
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The Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) – Lund University Libraries and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) today announced the start of a cooperation in order to secure long-term preservation of open access journals. The Swedish Library Association is generously acting as sponsor
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The Center for Digital Initiatives at Brown University has created another delightful digital collection in The Minassian Collection of miniature paintings from the estate of Mrs. Adrienne Minassian. The project came out of the work of Alanna Benham, a Brown alumna, who first presented her own work as a searchable database of Persian and Islamic [...]
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