Oxford Journals has announced a new national agreement with the University Library of Frankfurt, one of the German National Libraries of Humanities and Arts. Under the agreement, higher education, government and publicly funded research institutions, state and regional libraries, and universities in Germany will obtain online access to the Oxford Journals Collection and Archive. The agreement, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) as part of its national licensing project, replaces all existing consortia agreements in Germany.
Over 2.5 million academics, researchers and students throughout the nation will now have online access to the Oxford Journals Collection, which comprises over 220 journals from across six subject areas and includes content dating back to 1996. The deal also provides online access to the entire Oxford Journals Archive which contains over 3 million journal article pages and spans over 140 years of content from 1849 to 1995. The journal packages are seen to contain some of the world's most prestigious titles, including the Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, the European Heart Journal, and the English Historical Review.
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is a central, self governing research funding organisation that promotes research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany. Its membership is made up of German universities, non-university research institutions, scientific associations as well as the Academies of Science and Humanities. Oxford University Press, a university press founded in 1478, currently publishes more than 6,000 new books a year, has offices across 50 countries, and employs about 5,000 people worldwide.
