New Wiley-Blackwell journal agreement

The Library has signed up to the new JISC Collections NESLi2 'Big Deal' journal agreement with Wiley-Blackwell.

Under the new agreement, which runs for 3 years from 2012 to 2014, we have decided to cancel a few low-use (but usually high-price) titles and we have been able to fund a subscription to Geography Compass which was requested in this year's journals review.

The previous agreement started in 2009 and the collection of titles that it included had been static sincethen. This new agreement includes over 130 additional titles which will be available to us from the start of 2012 (including History Compass which was also request in the journals review, and Literature Compass):

Accounting Perspectives
Addiction Biology
Adultspan Journal
Agricultural Economics
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Weekly
Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
American Journal on Addictions
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
Arthritis Care and Research
Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
Asian Economic Policy Review
Asian Social Work and Policy Review
Australian Accounting Review
Australian Journal of Anthropology
Australian Journal of Psychology
Australian Psychologist
Biology of the Cell
Board and Administrator for Administrators Only
Brown University Child and Adolescent  Behavior Letter
Brown University Child and Adolescent  Psychopharmacology Update
Brown University Psychopharmacology Update
Campus Legal Advisor
Campus Security Report
Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering
Canadian Journal of Statistics
Career Development Quarterly
Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Respiratory Journal
College Athletics and the Law
Contemporary Accounting Research
Corporate Philanthropy Report
Counseling and Values
Counselor Education and Supervision
Crosscurrents
Curator the Museum Journal
Dean and Provost
Design Management Journal
Design Management Review
Digest of Middle East Studies
Disability Compliance for Higher Education
Economic Papers: a Journal of Applied Economics and Policy
Enrollment Management Report
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
European Journal of Political Research Political
European Management Review
European Transactions on Telecommunications
F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal
Federal Grants and Contracts
Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies an Evidence-Based Approach
Focus on Geography
Geographical Review
Geomechanics and Tunnelling
Geotechnik
Higher Education Abstracts
History Compass
HPB
Hypatia
IDS Bulletin
Infancy
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
Integrative Zoology
International Dental Journal
International Journal of Applied Glass Science
International Journal of Evidence Based Healthcare
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders
International Journal of Older People Nursing
International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
International Journal of Stroke
International Review of Finance
Japan Journal of Nursing Science
Journal for Healthcare Quality
Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling
Journal of Business Logistics
Journal of College Counseling
Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology
Journal of Counseling and Development
Journal of Creative Behavior
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
Journal of Employment Counseling
Journal of Finance
Journal of Forensic Nursing
Journal of Healthcare Risk Management
Journal of Humanistic Counseling
Journal of Industrial Ecology
Journal of Interior Design
Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health
Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
Journal of Neuroimaging
Journal of Policy and Practice In Intellectual Disabilities
Journal of Psychological Issues In Organizational Culture
Journal of Renal Care
Journal of the Historical Society
Juvenile and Family Court Journal
Latin American Policy
Latin Americanist
Legislative Studies Quarterly
Leviathan
Literature Compass
Lubrication Science
Management and Organization Review
Mark Twain Annual
Maternal and Child Nutrition
Mental Health Weekly
Meteoritics and Planetary Science
Microbiology and Immunology
Microcirculation
Natural Resource Modeling
Nonprofit Business Advisor
North American Dialogue
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Oral Surgery
Pediatric Obesity
Poe Studies
Production and Operations Management
Project Management Journal
Recruiting and Retaining Adult Learners
Regional Science Policy and Practice
Regulation and Governance
Resource Geology
School Science and Mathematics
Steel Construction - Design and Research
Steinbeck Review
Structural Concrete
Student Affairs Today
Successful Registrar
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
Swiss Political Science Review
Veterinary and Comparative Oncology
Wilmott Magazine
World Views on Evidence-Based Nursing

New Elsevier journal agreement

The Library has signed up to the new JISC Collections NESLi2 'Big Deal' journal agreement with Elsevier.

Under the new agreement, which runs for 5 years from 2012 to 2016, we have decided to cancel a few low-use (but usually high-price) titles:

Advances in Mathematics
Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
Information and Computation
International Journal of Multiphase Flow
Journal of Algebra
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Journal of Mathematical Economics
Journal of Number Theory
Journal of Symbolic Computation
Nuclear Data Sheets
Physics Reports
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics

Nevertheless we will continue to have on-going access to these titles as long as they remain in Elsevier's "Freedom Collection".
 
Instead we will start subscriptions to several more journals in 2012:
 
Academic Radiology
Advances in Anesthesia
Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
Advances in Pediatrics
Advances in Surgery
Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Annals of Tourism Research
Annals of Vascular Surgery
AORN Journal
Arthroscopy: the Journal of Arthroscopy and Related Surgery
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Body Image
Brachytherapy
Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly
British Accounting Review
Business Horizons
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
European Management Journal
Healthcare Management Forum
Heart Rhythm
Human Resource Management Review
Information & Management
International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus
International Journal of Production Economics
Journal of AAPOS
Journal of Business Research
Journal of Business Venturing
Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Journal of Clinical Densitometry
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
Journal of Great Lakes Research
Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume)
Journal of Hand Therapy
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Journal of International Management
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences
Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
Journal of Operations Management
Journal of Renal Nutrition
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Journal of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists
Journal of the American College of Radiology
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Journal of Veterinary Cardiology
JVIR: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Leadership Quarterly
Medical Dosimetry
Organizational Dynamics
Practical Radiation Oncology
Pregnancy Hypertension: an International Journal of Women's Cardiovascular Health
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Reproductive Biomedicine Online
Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
Tourism Management
Urological Science
Vaccine

Some of these have not been available to us before because they are not included in the Freedom Collection, and others are our best-used, non-subscribed titles in the collection. By subscribing to these titles we will earn permanent access to the content published during our subscription. We are only subscribing to new titles where usage statistics show that a reasonable number of abstracts have been viewed, suggesting that there is demand for these titles.

NEW: Brill journals collection

For 2011 we have expanded our subscriptions to Brill journals to include their full collection. We have had access to the Brill archive (Vol. 1 to 1999) since its purchase by JISC Collections in November 2008, and our usage of those archive volumes suggests that a subscription to the full collection (2000 to current) would be cost-effective.

The Brill collection contains humanities and social science titles from the Brill Academic Publishers imprint, international law and human rights titles from the Martinus Nijhoff imprint and science and technology titles from the VSP imprint. The additional titles that we now have full access to include:

Research in Phenomenology
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
Southeastern Europe
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Comparative Sociology
Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
Insect Systematics & Evolution
Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law
Crustaceana
Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology
Journal of Chinese Overseas
Middle East Law and Governance

See the full list of titles in the library catalogue.

De Gruyter E-journals Collection available

From 2010 we have started subscription to the full collection of journals from De Gruyter. This adds access to nearly 80 titles in fields ranging from Classics to Medicine, on top of our existing subscriptions. The collection restores access to two titles that had to be cancelled in recent years despite of good levels of usage:

Biological Chemistry
Botanica Marina

Amongst the other new titles are:

Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie
Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete
Byzantinische Zeitschrift
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
Journal of Group Theory
Journal of Perinatal Medicine
The Linguistic Review
Mammalia
Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication
Praehistorische Zeitschrift
Semiotica
Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie

All titles are listed in the library catalogue and have been activated in SFX / find it @ liverpool.

De Gruyter is celebrating 260 years of publishing and has recently announced a rebranding and modernisation of its image. It intends to increase the proportion of its output that is published in the English language.

Duke Journals Scholarly Collection Expanded now available

For 2010 we have started a subscription to the Duke Journals Scholarly Collection Expanded. This is a collection of 35 journals, mainly in the humanities, from Duke University Press. We already subscribed to several Duke journals, but this collection adds the following additional titles for little cost:

American Literary Scholarship
American Speech
boundary 2
Camera Obscura
Common Knowledge
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Eighteenth-Century Life
Ethnohistory
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Journal of Music Theory
Modern Language Quarterly
Nka: Journal of African Contemporary Art (launching in 2010)
Pedagogy
Poetics Today
positions: east asia cultures critique
Public Culture
Small Axe
Social Text
South Atlantic Quarterly
Theater

Access is available for all volumes that currently exist online. Duke University Press are currently engaged on a backfiles digitisation programme so several titles are already available back to Volume 1, and the number of such will increase steadily.

All titles are listed in our library catalogue and have been activated in SFX / find it @ liverpool.

Informa Healthcare collection 2009

As previously mentioned, we have subscribed to the Informa Healthcare collection for 2009. This collection comprises about 180 titles. Most of the titles were formerly included in the Taylor & Francis STM (and Full) Collection. In addition, the collection includes the highly regarded Expert Opinion titles and Current Medical Research and Opinion.

Most titles are available on the Informaworld platform. The Expert Opinion titles and CMRO are available on the new Informa Pharma Science platform, and some titles are available on both platforms!

Access extends back to volume 1 in most cases.

See our lists of catalogue records for collection titles and subscribed titles.

Taylor & Francis SSH Collection 2009

As mentioned previously, we have renewed our subscription to the Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) Collection for 2009.

This collection has been significantly expanded for 2009 and now includes over 1,000 titles. The additional titles come mainly courtesy of T&F's acquisitions of Haworth Press and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Furthermore we have updated our records for existing titles in the collection as we now typically have access back to 1997 (or to volume 1 if we or JISC have purchased the backfiles).

Finally, T&F's policy is that newly-launched journals are included in the collection for the first two year's of their life. In year 3 we will lose all access to such journals unless we elect to subscribe to them in addition to the collection. We have temporary access to over 30 such titles.

See our catalogue records for details of the titles included.

Over 475 additional Springer journals

For 2009 we have expanded our Springer big deal to include an additional 479 titles for virtually no additional cost. The additional collections include Springer's:

- Chinese Library of Science
- Russian Library of Science
- Versita (previously known as Central European Library of Science)
- titles that have transferred to Springer in recent years
- titles from imprints acquired by Springer in recent years (including the Current Medicine Group and Humana Press)

Some of the more notable titles now available include:

American Journal of Criminal Justice
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
Financial Markets and Portfolio Management
Human Nature
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, and JETP Letters
JOM Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A & B
Science in China Series A-G
Stem Cell Reviews and Reports

You can browse the available titles in the library catalogue, and they have all been activated in SFX (find it @ liverpool).

Taylor & Francis collections for 2009

From 2009 we will no longer subscribe to the Taylor & Francis Full Collection, but will instead subscribe to their Social Sciences and Humanities collection, together with the new Informa Healthcare collection.

This change was precipitated by the transfer of the Taylor & Francis medical and healthcare journals to Informa Healthcare, a separate division of Informa plc.

Our analysis showed that it was only the medical content within the Taylor & Francis STM Collection that meant that the overall collection provided acceptable value for money. The 'rump' Science & Technology collection would have provided us with poor value. Furthermore, there were several poor value subscriptions tied into the ST Collection, and by dropping the collection we have been able to cancel the worst of these.

The consequences of this decision are:

We can still access over 700 Social Sciences and Humanties journals on the Informaworld platform. Our access typically extends back to 1997 and we will update our records, as previous years have been digitised since we originally catalogued this collection.

We have lost access to about 300 Science & Technology journals on the Informaworld platform. Where we hold (or held) individual subscriptions to titles in this collection we will still have access (to the subscribed years).

We have temporarily lost access to nearly 160 Medicine and Healthcare journals on the Informaworld platform. Once our subscription to the Informa Healthcare collection is active we will once again be able to access these journals, back to Volume 1.

We will soon have access to all titles on the Informa Pharma Sciences site (where we currently access Current Medical Research and Opinion) back to Volume 1. This will include the Expert Opinion series of titles (and about 20 title which are also hosted on Informaworld).

We will continue to be access the complete backfiles over 120 journals in the following subject areas:

Behavioral Science (i.e. Psychology)
Business, Management and Economics
Geaography, Planning, Urban and Environment

because we (or JISC) have purchased the backfiles in perpetuity.

Multi-Science e-journals collection now available

We now have access to all of the journals published by Multi-Science Publishing. We have licenced this collection as part of the Knowledge Exchange initiative.

We previously subscribed to 5 Multi-Science journals:

Building Acoustics
International Journal of Architectural Computing
International Journal of Space Structures
Journal of Low Frequency Noise and Vibration and Active Control
Wind Engineering

but our online access only extended back to the year that our subcription started.

This new collection provides access to all available years (usually back to 1999 or 2000) and currently includes 9 additional titles:

Adsorption Science and Technology
Advances in Structural Engineering
Energy & Environment
Energy Exploration & Exploitation
International Journal of Aeroacoustics
The International Journal of Multiphysics
International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology
Noise & Vibration Worldwide

Multi-Science are launching 7 new titles in 2009 and we will have access to these titles too:

International Journal of Aerospace Innovations
International Journal of Innovation Science
International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles
The Journal of Computational Multiphase Flows
International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics
International Journal of Flow Control
International Journal of Emerging Multidisciplinary Fluid Sciences

The agreement is due to last until 31st December 2011 but we are free to opt-out at the end of 2009 or 2010.