Wiley InterScience Launches the Cell & Developmental Biology Backfile Collection

Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the launch of the Cell & Developmental Biology Backfile Collection, the latest addition to its growing collection of digitized journal libraries, and the first to be launched in 2005. The Analytical Sciences Backfile Collection will follow with a scheduled launch of mid-March 2005. The Cell & Developmental Biology Backfile Collection is available via Wiley InterScience (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/backfiles), Wiley’s dynamic online publishing platform.

Spanning 113 years (1887-1999), the Cell & Developmental Biology Backfile Collection contains digitized back-issue content across thirteen leading journal titles. The collection provides a backfile resource for core research across the disciplines of cell and developmental biology and includes full coverage – back to inaugural issues – of such seminal titles as American Journal of Anatomy (now published as Developmental Dynamics), The Anatomical Record, and BioEssays.

With the launch of the Cell & Developmental Biology Backfile Collection, subscribers now have access to over 37,000 research articles and over 528,000 digitized pages of new cell and developmental biology content.

All journal articles are presented in a fully searchable PDF format, with abstracts, bibliographic content, and literature citations all available in HTML, allowing for both internal linking to cited content located on Wiley InterScience, as well as external linking via CrossRef/DOI, PubMed, and ISI Web of Science to the content of hundreds of publishers worldwide.

Wiley’s digitization of legacy content is an ongoing project designed to improve the research pathway – ensuring content discovery is as seamless and time efficient as possible. The Cell & Developmental Biology Backfile Collection joins not only the Chemistry, Materials Science, and Neuroscience Backfile Collections launched late last year, but Wiley InterScience’s other backfile offerings that include the Polymer Science Backfile Collection, the Angewandte Chemie International Edition Backfile Collection, and the Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Backfile Collection – bringing the total amount of digitized legacy content to over 2.5 million pages. With the launch of the Analytical Sciences Backfile Collection in March 2005, the total amount of digitized legacy content will exceed 3 million pages.

Journals included in the Cell & Developmental Biology Backfile Collection are: The Anatomical Record, Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, BioEssays, Biologie in unserer Zeit, Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton, (formerly Cell Motility), Clinical Anatomy, Developmental Dynamics (formerly American Journal of Anatomy), Developmental Genetics, Journal of Cellular Physiology (formerly the Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology), Journal of Morphology, Journal of Orthopaedic Research, Microscopy Research and Technique (formerly the Journal of Electron Microscopy Technique), and Molecular Reproduction and Development (formerly Gamete Research).

For more information about the Cell & Developmental Biology Backfile Collection, please visit Wiley InterScience at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/backfiles.


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