New York Public Library provides e-access to Wiley STM Journals

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

This is a most interesting press release:

<http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/wiley.cfm>

The New York Public Library Now Provides Comprehensive Electronic 
Access to the Latest Scientific, Technical, and Medical Research 
from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

The New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business 
Library is First Major Public Library to License Wiley's 
Peer-Reviewed Journals

The New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business 
Library (SIBL) and global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. have 
joined in a groundbreaking new venture that provides Library 
users broad, public online access to over 300 peer-reviewed 
journals that until now have been available principally through 
academic or corporate collections.

For the first time at each of the Library's four research 
libraries: SIBL, Humanities and Social Science Library, Library 
for the Performing Arts, and the Schomburg Center for Research in 
Black Culture - users will be able to electronically access the 
full-text of journal articles online via Wiley InterScience 
(www.interscience.wiley.com), Wiley's online publishing platform, 
as soon as they are published. Journals featured in this program 
span the sciences with titles such as Advanced Engineering 
Materials, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Cancer, 
Flavor and Fragrance, Journal of Field Robotics, and 
International Journal of Imaging Systems & Technology.

The aims of this pilot project are to learn about how high level 
journal content is used and by whom in a public library setting, 
and how a major public research library can effectively provide 
access to this type of content for its users. This is Wiley's 
first license for journal content with a major public library in 
North America. SIBL previously subscribed to 68 journal titles on 
Wiley InterScience; the trial pilot provides access to an 
additional 239 titles. A full alphabetical list of the titles 
included in the pilot can be found at: 
<http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/docs/wileyjournals.pdf.>

"This historic agreement, the first time that Wiley InterScience 
has been offered in a public library, allows SIBL to provide the 
general public with access to the full corpus of John A. Wiley's 
science-technology-medical (STM) journal titles in e-format,"said 
Kristin McDonough, Robert and Joyce Menschel Director of the 
Science, Industry and Business Library. "During this experiment, 
the SIBL staff isoffering students at local high schools and 
technical institutes, small business owners, and interested 
laypeople hands-on help in the effective searching of this 
resource of more than 300 Wiley STM titles. SIBL is delighted to 
create a new opportunity to provide a wealth of scientific 
research publications to a broader public audience."

"Wiley is thrilled to partner with The New York Public Library in 
this pilot," said Reed Elfenbein, Vice President and General 
Manager, Wiley InterScience and Global STM Sales. "It will help 
us to understand how we can better connect to new audiences to 
provide resources that until now may not have been easily 
available to them."

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