The China National Science and Technology Library (NSTL) has approved the purchase and hosting of the Karger Journal Archive Collection. It comprises journal issues from 1893 to 1997. The licence covers nationwide access for academic and non-commercial organisations in mainland China. It is the first national agreement in this part of the world for the journal archive content of the Swiss-based Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. The launching ceremony will take place on April 28 at the Assembly Hall of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing.
After an extensive process of negotiations, the NSTL decided to purchase and host the Karger Journal Archive Collection last year, thus completing its mission of collecting fundamental medical and scientific electronic archives by selected foreign publishers. The licence covers nationwide access to the Karger journal archives for academic and non-commercial organisations in mainland China from 1997 and going back to 1893.
Responding to a demand from libraries, Karger Publishers retrodigitized the complete Karger print journal archives and thus completed the Karger Journal Archive Collection in 2009. Approximately 190,000 articles published in 64 renowned Karger journals reflect over 100 years of medical history, covering all fields of medicine and documenting the expansion into new medical subdisciplines. Featuring original work by leading medical experts of their time, the Karger Journal Archive Collection provides essential insights into the identification of health conditions and illnesses and the evolution of research and treatment methods.
