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 Journal archiving
BioMed Central deposits the open access articles that it publishes
in multiple digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term
digital preservation.
These archives include:
BioMed Central is also participating in the British Library's e-journals
pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the
British Library.
BioMed Central makes article metadata available in compliance
with Open
Archives Initiative protocols, enabling automated 'harvesting' of
our research articles for inclusion in any other digital archives. We
support non-exclusive digital archiving of research articles by as many
international archives as possible, to ensure the security and permanent
accessibility of that research [more information
about BioMed Central's support for OAI].
BioMed Central is a participant in the LOCKSS
(Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) initiative. LOCKSS will enable any
library to maintain their own archive of content from BioMed Central
and other publishers, with minimal technical effort and using cheaply
available hardware.
To facilitate datamining research, the fulltext XML
of all BioMed Central open access research articles is available for ftp
download as a ZIP archive. See our datamining
research page for more details.
All review content in BioMed Central journals
is archived on the individual websites, and is fully accessible to all
current subscribers. Review content is also archived with PubMed Central,
and is made freely available (both from PubMed Central and from the BioMed
Central site) two years after the date of publication.
A hard copy version of the full collection of
original research papers published by BioMed Central is also available
for purchase directly from our customer services department. For more
information about this please contact
us.
CD-ROM archives are available for all journals published by BioMed Central. Each journal CD-ROM archive will include all articles published in the journal between the launch date and the date of ordering the CD-ROM. Please contact us to request pricing information.
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