The Periodicals Archive Online: JISC Collections Selection has been purchased by JISC Collections and is available free of charge to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils.
Institutions now have free online access to over 288,000 articles from a subset of 80 full text journal backfiles published between 1891 and 2000, from the Periodicals Archive Online collection.
An access fee may apply after 31/05/2013.
This agreement is a subset of 80 full text journal backfiles for the arts, humanities and social sciences from the Periodicals Archive Online collection.
Subject areas
The arts, business, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, politics, psychology, and the social sciences.
Academic level
This resource is suitable for undergraduates and postgraduates.
Date range
Journals published between 1891 and 2000.
Additional content
Separate agreements for other content from Periodicals Online will be available soon.
Selection policy
The basic criteria for inclusion is that journals are scholarly in nature or of significant interest to scholars, that they have a significant backfile component prior to 1995, and that they fit within one or more of the database's 37 subject areas in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Updates
Content is not updated as this is a static collection.
Comparable resources
JSTOR
Other institutions subscribing
This resource has a range of customers around the world, including national licences in Germany and Taiwan, consortia sales in Spain, France, Scandinavia, and Australia, and many customers in North America.
Complementary resources
Institutions with access to both British Periodicals Collections I and II and Periodicals Archives Online are able to cross-search titles in both resources. This provides users with simultaneous access to hundreds of historical periodicals, as well as the more current literature about those authors and topics in Periodicals Archives Online's journals from one search.
You can subscribe to this content via the publisher's platform. Access to the content is free until 31 May 2013. An access fee may be required after this date.
Alternatively, institutions can host the content for a one-off payment of £500.
Full text linking
Search results link to full text content.
Federated searching
Federated searching is supported via an XML gateway, and the Z39.50 protocol. The platform is a source for inbound OpenURL referrals and all content and functional pages feature durable URLs, using OpenURL syntax.
MARC records
MARC records are available for all titles in the collection.
Search options
Quick and advanced searching is available. Quick searching is by journal title, article title, article text, author, and ISSN.
Advanced searches allow users to search by querying citations, article full text, or both. Advanced searches can be limited by content type, keyword, article title keyword, author, journal title, language, journal subject, year, and ISSN.
Post-search options
Users can sort search results alphabetically, chronologically, reverse-chronologically, and by relevance. Results can be limited by journal, language, date of publication, and journal subject. Users can also save results to a personal folder.
Usage statistics
COUNTER compliant usage statistics are available free of charge and in a variety of formats.
Authentication
Authentication is available via the UK Access Management Federation and Athens.
Personalisation of the resource
Institutions can add their own branding, and users can save their research to a password protected area.