Santa Barbara, CA - March 23, 2004 - ABC-CLIO announced today that it now links its abstracting and indexing databases, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, to online journals from Oxford University Press (OUP).
With this new agreement, ABC-CLIO database users will be able to search article titles and abstracts from any OUP journals online, including such prestigious titles as The English Historical Review, Past & Present, and Early Music. Additionally those users who subscribe to any OUP online journals will have direct links to the full-text articles.
ABC-CLIO already links with JSTOR, Project Muse, History Cooperative, and H-Net as well as a number of free online journals. These partnerships are instrumental to making quality research information more accessible.
"We are very pleased to be working with Oxford University Press and to announce this linking partnership to such a premier list of titles. Being able to provide this type of access continues our mission of meeting the needs of history researchers of all types," said Vicky Speck, Editorial Director, Serials at ABC-CLIO.
Notes to Editors:
Established in 1955, ABC-CLIO (www.abc-clio.com) is a privately held corporation. It has for many years enjoyed an international reputation for high quality and innovation. The company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, with offices in Denver, Colorado, and Oxford, England. As an educational reference publisher, ABC-CLIO has received critical acclaim for its computer-assisted abstracting and indexing services, world-renowned book program, and cutting-edge online products.
Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, established in 1955 and 1964 respectively, are research tools for students, scholars, and historians. They contain abstracts of journal articles and book reviews pertaining to the history of the world, with more than 16,000 new entries added to each database every year. Both databases were brought to the web in 1998.
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the world's largest and most international of university presses. It publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over 50 countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing program that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals.
OUP publishes over 180 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. A full list of the journals and subjects covered can be found at the OUP Journals website (www.oupjournals.org).
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