NESLIi2 SMP (Small to Medium Sized Publishers) Initiative - 19 publishers now participating and over 520 journals available

In response to institutional demand, the NESLi2 SMP initiative was launched last year to offer the UK academic community access to journals from a broader range of publishers. After a very successful first year, a further 7 publishers will participate from 2009, and over 150 additional journal titles will be available. This means that, in total, NESLi2 SMP offers a total of 520 journals from 19 publishers.

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e-Journal Archiving Solutions final report is now available

Although there are many obvious benefits that accrue from publishing and accessing academic papers through the internet, there are costs and challenges associated with long term preservation and access which urgently need to be addressed. Finding solutions to these is the shared responsibility of all in the information chain, including authors, publishers, repository managers, librarians, subscription agents and aggregators.

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