Oxford Journals Archive Online has been purchased by JISC and is available free of charge to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils.
Institutions now have free online access to 3 million pages from over 140 journal titles, which are complied into subject-based archives and represent over 140 years of historical research.
An access fee may apply after 31/07/2011.
Content description
The Oxford Journals Archive contains the content of each journal from Volume 1, Issue 1 up until the end of 1995. The issues are complied into subject-based archives. There are approximately 3 million pages. Full text PDFs of each article with HTML headers and abstracts are available along with images and graphics.
Benefits to Librarians:
- Free up shelf space and staff time by replacing print copies with this fully searchable online Archive
- Fill the gaps in your collections and discard old, damaged and deteriorating issues
- Enjoy a secure and efficient means of preserving the collections for perpetuity
Benefits to Readers:
- Retrieve articles direct from your desktop without searching library shelves
- Get a feel for how knowledge and opinion has changed in your subject areas
- Access previously missing or forgotten works
- Enjoy seamless searching across the Archive with HighWire
- Links to "similar articles in this journal"
1. The Humanities Archive (1849 - 1995)
With more than 900,000 pages and 300,000 articles, the Humanities Archive includes important articles in history, music, religion, philosophy, literary studies and linguistics. The Humanities Archive includes such prestigious titles as; Essays in Criticism, Journal of Theological Studies, Past and Present and Mind.
2. The Medicine Archive (1878 - 1995)
The Medicine Archive provides an invaluable resource to researchers and professionals interested in the founding knowledge that has helped to build this complex subject. The Medicine Archive covers topics ranging from clinical medicine through to public health and epidemiology. The Medicine Archive includes such prestigious titles as; Brain, European Heart Journal, International Journal of Anaesthesia, Rheumatology, American Journal of Epidemiology and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
3. The Science Archive (1878 - 1995)
The Science Archive comprises of numerous leading, high impact molecular biology titles and prominent journals in mathematics, statistics, physics and computing. The Science Archive includes such prestigious titles as; Annals of Botany, Brain, Mutagenesis and Nucleic Acids Research.
4. The Law Archive (1961 - 1995)
The Law Archive comprises of more than 50,000 pages of a wide range of high-quality journals, in addition to general titles in legal studies and international law, it includes a variety of specialised journals in subjects such as medical and environmental law. The Law Archive includes such prestigious titles as; International and Comparative Law Quarterly, British Journal of Criminology and the Medical Law Review.
5. The Social Science Archive (1902 - 1995)
With more than 290,000 pages, the Social Science Archive illuminates the history behind this multidisciplinary subject, and facilitates tracking the changing natures of social sciences in a global environment. With many distinguished economics journals and a wide variety of titles in political science, sociology and social work, the Archive offers a single resource for students and researchers alike. The Social Science Archive includes such prestigious titles as; African Affairs, Political Analysis and Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society.
Title list
A list of titles by subject archive can be found in Schedule 2 of Sub-Licence Agreement A and Sub-Licence Agreement B.
Academic level
Suitable for further education and an essential tool for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and professionals.
Date range
Each subject archive runs from different dates:
- The Humanities Archive (1849 - 1995)
- The Medicine Archive (1878 - 1995)
- The Science Archive (1878 - 1995)
- The Law Archive (1962 - 1995)
- The Social Science Archive (1902 - 1995)
Publisher's selection policy
All OUP published articles from Volume 1, issue 1 to end of 1995 where available for inclusion.
Complementary resources
Users can combine the primary materials from the BAILII Open Law Project (for example historical judgements) with the secondary materials from the law journals in Brill Journal Archive Online and Oxford Journals Archive (the Law archive) for their legal research tasks.
The Web of Science Backfiles can be used as a starting point for research in a chosen area, with the ability to navigate to the full-text journals in the Oxford Journals Archive.
The most significant developments in the Physics subject area can be discovered using both the Institute of Physics Journal Archive and the Physics titles in the Oxford Journals Archive.
Cost
JISC has purchased the digitised images of the Oxford Journals Archive on behalf of the JISC community.
The license that JISC has with Oxford University Press is for an indefinitely long period.
There are TWO subscription options for institutions:
1. Sub-Licence A:
Institutions can take advantage of online access to the Archive via OUP's secure network. HireWire hosts the Archive and provides fully integrated search facilities, allowing for the fast retrieval of previously hard-to-find material and, with linking to current content, makes it easy to explore.
This option is FREE of CHARGE. The JISC contract guarantees that there will be NO ACCESS CHARGES for the next five years.
2. Sub-Licence B:
Institutions can receive the digital content of the Archive and locally mount the content on a secure network.
This option requires institutions to pay a ONE OFF FEE of £500 + VAT.
Subscribe to this agreement until 31 May 2013 and have access to the content via the publisher's platform.
Host this content yourself by making a one-off payment of £500.
The agreement complies with the terms of the JISC Model Licence. Please note that institutions are allowed to deposit learning and teaching objects that incorporate parts of the Archive into JORUM.
For further details of the JISC Model Licence please refer to the Guide to the JISC Model Licence.
Functionality and standards compliance
Full text linking
CrossRef
OpenURL linking for the Oxford Digital Archive will be possible via CrossRef from Spring 2006.
You can download a list of home page URLs for each journal, along with the online coverage, and availability of PDF and HTML, as a Microsoft Excel file or a comma-separated text file: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/help/homepage_urls.xls
URL-based linking algorithms
Using the home page URL spreadsheet available above, URL-based links to specific pages can be created using the following algorithms.
Home page: [home page URL]
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/
Archive page: [home page URL]/archive/
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/archive/
Table of contents: [home page URL]/content/vol[volume]/issue[issue]/index.dtl
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol25/issue17/index.dtl
For article-level linking, links should be created using DOIs. DOIs for Oxford Journals can be looked up via CrossRef.
OpenURL
In order to link to Oxford Journals content using an OpenURL 0.1 or 1.0 syntax, use the CrossRef OpenURL Resolver.
Oxford Digital Archive continue to support a mechanism for linking to Oxford Journals content using an OpenURL 0.1 syntax. Please note that use of this is deprecated in favour of CrossRef's Z38.88-compliant OpenURL resolver. Users of the existing mechanism should migrate to the CrossRef resolver by end 2006.
CrossRef and DOIs
Oxford Journals deposits DOIs and metadata for its journal content with CrossRef. For an introduction to CrossRef services see the CrossRef Fast Facts page.
Anyone wishing to link to Oxford Journals content can query the CrossRef database using bibliographic metadata and receive DOIs for successful matches.
If you know the DOI of an article (e.g. doi:10.1093/nar/gkh704), simply append it to http://dx.doi.org/ to make a link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkh704
Again, OpenURL linking for the Oxford Digital Archive will be possible via CrossRef from Spring 2006.
Federated searching
Oxford Journals is currently migrating their electronic production processes to produce journal articles in an archival quality XML DTD -- the National Library of Medicine's Journal Publishing DTD (http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/).
MARC records
Not applicable for this resource.
Metadata standards
Metadata is available in XML using the NLM Publishing DTD.
Search options
Searches can be conducted across all Oxford Journals by Subject, Title, Abstract Year, Author, Keyword and/or DOI.
Searching for similar articles within Oxford Journals is available, and searches can be extended to include other publishers' titles on Highwire.
Where other publishers' titles are cited by Oxford Journals that article is freely available to Oxford Journal subscribers.
Post-search options
Oxford Digital Archive supports reference management tools such as EndNote, Reference Manager, ProCite, BibTex and Ref Works.
Searches can be saved to a personal archive.
Linking from Archive search results to similar articles in PubMed, ISI Web of Science and Highwire is available.
Personalised CiteTrack alerts can be created and received in HTML or plain text via email.
Searches can be conducted for similar articles in PubMed and ISI Web of Science as well as for more articles by the same author within Oxford Journals, PubMed, ISI and Google Scholar.
For further details visit: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/for_librarians/promotional_support.html
Usage statistics
Usage statistics for current content and Oxford Digital Archive content is combined.
For more information on usage statistics please visit: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/for_librarians/usage_stats.html
Authentication
Authentication is via the UK Access Management Federation, Athens, and IP range.
Personalisation of the online resource
Saved searches, Cite Track, e-toc alerts, new content and correction alerts, and RSS feeds are all available.
Searches can be conducted for similar articles in PubMed and ISI Web of Science as well as for more articles by the same author within Oxford Journals, PubMed, ISI and Google Scholar.
Accessibility
All best efforts have been made to comply with the W3C standards
Library support information