Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing, UK, has announced an agreement with the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) to create an IOP Journal Metadata Database. The new database will give researchers in China greater access to key journal content published by IOP and the company’s partners.
As a result of this arrangement researchers at Chinese institutions can now search the IOP Journal Metadata Database, by keyword, to find IOP-hosted articles. The database, hosted on CNKI’s website, will include articles published in IOP journals from 1874 to the present. It can be used to find article titles, keywords, abstracts, authors, author affiliations, journal titles, article DOIs and journal ISSNs.
The deal further strengthens IOP’s relationship with the Chinese scientific community. IOP has had an editorial office in Beijing for 12 years and has recently expanded its operations by opening a sales and marketing office in the city. In 2011, IOP signed agreements with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the China National Science and Technology Library (NSTL), giving Chinese researchers easy access to IOP’s content. IOP also partners with several Chinese organisations to publish their journals.
