Forwarded by Girija Srinivasan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raman Research Institute Library, Tel: +91 80 361 0122 C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Fax: +91 80 361 0492 Bangalore 560 080, India. Email: library@rri.res.in ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:14:22 -0700 From: george@LIBRARY.CALTECH.EDU Reply-To: Electronic Resources in Libraries <ERIL-L@LISTSERV.BINGHAMTON.EDU> To: ERIL-L@LISTSERV.BINGHAMTON.EDU Subject: [ERIL-L] PubMed Central backfile project PubMed Central (PMC) has initiated a major archival scanning project in conjunction with several participating publishers <http://pubmedcentral.com/about/scanning.html>. NLM is committed to providing cover-to-cover images of the journal issues, back through volume 1 of all participating titles. American Society for Microbiology (10 journals) and BMJ Publishing Group (BMJ and specialist journals; 21 titles) are the two largest publisher blocs. PNAS backfiles will apparently be created independently from the versions in JSTOR. PNAS is already the most heavily used title by Caltech from PMC, by more than an order of magnitude. With an additional 75 years of backfile becoming available, unfettered by IP-ranges or usernames & passwords, many grad students and faculty, working at home or on the road, will find PNAS via PMC to be an indispensable adjunct to their research. George S. Porter Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science Caltech, 1-43 Pasadena, CA 91125-4300 Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681