Wiley InterScience Launches the Neuroscience Backfile Collection



October 24, 2004 -- Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced the launch of the Neuroscience Backfile Collection, the latest addition to its growing collection of digitized journal libraries, and the second to be launched this fall, following the release of the Materials Science Backfile Collection. The Neuroscience Backfile Collection is available via Wiley InterScience (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/backfiles), Wiley's dynamic online publishing platform.

Spanning more than 100 years, the Neuroscience Backfile Collection contains digitized back-issue content across fourteen leading journal titles. The collection provides a backfile resource for core research across the sub-disciplines of neuroscience, and includes full coverage - back to inaugural issues - of seminal titles such as the Journal of Comparative Neurology, the oldest journal in the field of neuroscience, the Annals of Neurology, the Journal of Neuroscience Research, and GLIA, the journal that launched the field of glial research, which is now considered to be a mainstream area in the field of neuroscience.

Of the fourteen journals included in the collection, nine are ranked in the top 3rd of their subject categories in ISI's 2002 Journal Citation Report, seven are ranked in the top quarter, and three are ranked in the top ten - including the top-ranked neuroscience journal in the world, the Annals of Neurology. With the launch of the Neuroscience Backfile Collection, subscribers will have access to over 35,000 research articles and over 380,000 digitized pages of new neuroscience content.

All journal articles are presented in a fully searchable PDF format, with abstracts, bibliographic content, and literature citations all available in HTML, allowing for both internal linking to cited content located on Wiley InterScience, as well as external linking via CrossRef/DOI, PubMed, ISI Web of Science, and CAS to the content of hundreds of publishers worldwide.

Wiley's digitization of legacy content is an ongoing project designed to improve the research pathway - ensuring content discovery is as seamless and time efficient as possible. The Neuroscience Backfile Collection will join not only the Materials Science Backfile Collection, just launched in September, but Wiley InterScience's other backfile offerings that include the Polymer Science Backfile Collection, the Angewandte Chemie International Edition Backfile Collection, and the Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Backfile Collection - bringing the total amount of digitized legacy content to over 2.4 million pages. The Chemistry Backfile Collection is scheduled to launch in early November.

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Note to Editors:
Journals included in the Neuroscience Backfile Collection are: Annals of Neurology, Developmental Psychobiology, Drug Development Research, GLIA, Hippocampus, Human Brain Mapping, Human Psychopharmacology, the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the Journal of Comparative Neurology, the Journal of Neurobiology, the Journal of Neuroscience Research, Movement Disorders, Muscle & Nerve, and SYNAPSE.





Wiley InterScience Launches the Neuroscience Backfile Collection