Philadelphia, PA USA-London UK - October 4, 2005 - Today, Thomson Scientific announced that mutual subscribers to the Web
of Science® component of ISI Web of KnowledgeSM
and JSTOR can now link directly from Web of Science to full-text articles
in the JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive. Thomson Scientific is a business of
The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
The links to the JSTOR content significantly bolsters the already substantial
Web of Science links to full text, adding links to more than 1.25 million
articles. The JSTOR content also greatly enhances Web of Science links
to the full text of retrospective content of arts and humanities journal articles.
The JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive is multidisciplinary and offers researchers
the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and
articles as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
Web of Science is a major component of ISI Web of Knowledge—the
powerful Web-based platform that offers seamless access to the highest quality
content, evaluation tools, and bibliographic management products. Web of
Science enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary
bibliographic information from the world’s most prestigious scholarly
journals back to 1900. The unique Web of Science feature—cited
reference searching—allows users to navigate forward, backward, and through
the literature to uncover the information relevant to their work, and to learn
who is citing their work and the impact they (or their colleagues) are having
on the global research community.
“JSTOR greatly increases the number of links to the full text of our
backfile content,” said Phil Heller, senior director of linkage business
development, Thomson Scientific. “Its backfile depth is in part what makes
Web of Science such a powerful tool for academic, government and corporate
libraries worldwide. The links to full text further strengthen this invaluable
resource,” added Heller.
“Librarians have long struggled with increasing subscription costs and
tighter budgets, while at the same time having to balance patrons’ demands
for more materials and services. The JSTOR archive is one solution to these
challenges,” said Keith MacGregor, executive vice president of Academic
& Government Markets, Thomson Scientific. “Our linking to the JSTOR
full-text archive allows us to similarly assist our customers in maximizing
the use of all their collections.”
About JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain
a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to
these journals as widely as possible. Originally conceived as a project at The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR began as an effort to ease the increasing
problems faced by libraries seeking to provide adequate shelf space for the
long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Because of JSTOR's archival mission,
there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published
journal issue and the content available in JSTOR. For more information, visit
www.jstor.org
