For over 40 years, the British Library has been the world’s largest document supplier and, over that period, we have become renowned for delivering both popular and harder-to-find research materials. The demands of our customers have changed dramatically in recent times. Two factors that have driven those changes are the demand for articles in electronic form and immediate access to them.
The British Library has responded by negotiating licenses with selected publishing partners for the ingest and storage of their content in electronic form and this enables our customers to download this content immediately from our secure servers, as a DRM-enabled Adobe PDF files. In recent years our collection of electronically stored content has grown steadily, but with the imminent addition of over 1,500 new titles, we are now pleased to announce that articles from over 40% of the journals included in our Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC)* database will be available immediately.
From June 2008, articles from John Wiley & Sons, Taylor & Francis Group and Future Science Group will be available for immediate download through our British Library Direct, British Library Direct Plus and British Library Inside services. Barry Smith, Senior Marketing Manager said “The addition of these 1,500 journals means that we will be able to deliver articles from over 8,500 titles immediately. This is exciting news because, with so much information at the fingertips of researchers, immediate access is increasingly becoming the norm”.
Title lists for all of the new electronic content is available from the links on the right of the page.
* ETOC is a database that contains article data for 20,000 of our most requested content.
