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Access to electronic backfiles for Wiley science journals

In a major cooperative purchase with other CIC universities -- the Big 10 plus the University of Chicago -- Northwestern University Library has acquired extended electronic journal backfiles from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. These backfiles are clustered by subject area as follows:

Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics
Chemistry
Materials Science
Neuroscience
Analytical Sciences
Cell and Developmental Biology
Genetics & Evolution

The Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Backfile Collection alone covers 55 years of content from 15 leading journals, among them Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Proteins, Biopolymers, The AIChE Journal, Chemie Ingenieur Technik , and Chemical Engineering & Technology, for a total of 44,480 articles and 344,792 pages of content.

Northwestern has already acquired two major backfile collections from Wiley -- Angewandte Chemie (1962-1997) and Polymer (1946-1997). The seven new collections give researchers on both Northwestern campuses access to over 3.5 million pages of digitized legacy scientific content.

For more information, go to Wiley's backfile description pages at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/backfileCollections.html. To begin searching, go to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home.

Jeffrey Garrett