New national agreement increases access to Oxford Journals content in Germany
8 October 2008Oxford Journals is delighted to have signed a new national agreement providing higher education, government and publicly funded research institutions, state and regional libraries, and universities in Germany with online access to both the Oxford Journals Collection and Archive.
This national agreement for the German national consortium was signed by the University Library of Frankfurt, one of the German National Libraries of Humanities and Arts, and Oxford Journals. It was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) as part of their national licensing project, and replaces all existing consortia agreements in Germany.Over 2.5 million academics, researchers, and students throughout Germany will now have online access to the Oxford Journals Collection, which comprises over 220 journals from across six subject areas and includes content dating back to 1996. This deal also provides online access to the entire Oxford Journals Archive which contains over three million journal article pages and spans over 140 years of knowledge with content from 1849 to 1995. These journal packages contain some of the world's most prestigious titles, including JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, European Heart Journal, and English Historical Review.
“We are particularly excited by this agreement, and we hope it will be the first of many national contracts to be signed in Europe. As part of the largest university press in the world, we are dedicated to ensuring that high quality research is disseminated as widely as possible, and so we are delighted that this arrangement will provide so many German institutions with access to our journal content”, commented Roland Ehrenfels, Sales and Marketing Director at Oxford Journals.
Sylvia Weber, co-ordinator of the national consortium in Frankfurt, added: “We are excited to be working with Oxford University Press, and pleased that this new national agreement will enable academics and students throughout Germany to make use of OUP’s high quality content.”
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The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) is the central, self governing research funding organisation that promotes research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany. The DFG serves all branches of science and the humanities by funding research projects and facilitating cooperation among researchers. DFG membership is made up of German universities, non-university research institutions, scientific associations as well as the Academies of Science and Humanities. For more information, please visit www.dfg.de.
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Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, publishes over 220 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. Read more about Oxford Journals. For more information on the Oxford Journals Collection, please see www.oxfordjournals.org/collections
