The digital archives feature up to eighty years of journal content, and in total just over 1500 issues of archival material are available electronically from 2010, in addition to the 400 back issues that went online in 2009. To encourage further readership of the archives, there is a significantly reduced pay-per-view price for all content published before 2000. This is a major development for Maney Publishing, providing extra research material across a wide variety of subject areas through the decades.
The project began in 2009 in conjunction with Hollingworth & Moss, who have been responsible for scanning all the hard copy archive issues, and Publishing Technology. The journals are hosted by IngentaConnect, the online platform for Maney journals, and the archives are available for institutional subscribers and certain society member subscribers alongside current journal content. The archives will also be included in CrossRef, enabling interactive linking to and from cited references.
Helen Duce, Electronic Publishing Co-ordinator at Maney, who has overseen the project, is pleased with the results: “Managing to locate and obtain copies of many of these archives has been no mean feat, especially those from the early and mid-part of the twentieth century, and we are indebted to editors and librarians for their help. We are thrilled to be able to make available content from many issues which until now have been hidden away, and feel the archives provide an unparalleled historic research resource.”
Adam Benson from Hollingworth & Moss commented: “Working on this project with Maney Publishing, our company has acted to ensure that high legibility is maintained in the digital reproduction of learned journals, whilst creating the best possible digital versions of the content for dissemination online. This is achieved through enhancement and compression, using sophisticated software to safeguard and improve the content. It has been a pleasure to work on such a large project with Maney Publishing, enabling such a vast amount of new content to be discovered online.”
Anna Lister Cheese, Senior Client Manager at Publishing Technology, said: “Publishing Technology is delighted to have worked with Maney on the retrodigitisation project to include Maney's considerable archive on IngentaConnect. Users can now more readily access Maney's backfile of titles alongside current material.”
The archives are included in the MORE (Maney Online Research E-journal) Collections – packages of online journals available as the full or subject-specific collections. For details visit www.maney.co.uk/more. A current year’s subscription to any journal with an extended archive includes access to the full range of content.
View a list of the retrodigitised journals here.
About Maney Publishing
Maney says: “Maney Publishing was formed in 1997 from a printing company established in 1900, and publishes scholarly journals in materials science, the humanities, and health science. Maney is committed to publishing high quality journals in print and electronic formats that are international in scope and peer-reviewed. With offices in Leeds and London in the UK, and in Cambridge and Philadelphia in North America, Maney publishes extensively for learned societies, universities and professional bodies around the world.”
