Harvard, publishers to form e-journal archive. (digital publishing: e-books * online & digital publishing * print-on-demand).(Harvard University Library and three publishers of scholarly journals -- Blackwell Publishing, John Wiley & Sons Inc. and the University of Chicago Press plan archive)

T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), October, 2001

The Harvard University Library and three publishers of scholarly journals -- Blackwell Publishing, John Wiley & Sons Inc. and the University of Chicago Press -- are working together to develop an experimental archive for e-journals. The preservation and archiving of e-journals -- which are increasingly created in digital form and for which, in many cases, no paper forms exist -- present unique, long-term challenges to librarians, publishers, and, ultimately, to the scholars and researchers who will seek access to them in the future.

The new joint venture is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which recently made a $145,000 grant to the Harvard University Library specifically for the planning of an e-journal archive. The grant challenges Harvard and...

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