ACS PUBLICATIONS Over a Century of Essential Chemistry on Your Desktop H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T. A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S Robert Bovenschulte Director, ACS Publications Division ICOLC Archiving Session Nashville, September 20, 2002 Expanding Access for the Advancement of Science: Making Scientists More Productive

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T. Overview  ACS Web Editions and Cancellation Policy  ACS Journal Archives  Product  Pricing  Delivery and Preservation  Clarifications  Final Words  ACS Web Editions and Cancellation Policy  ACS Journal Archives  Product  Pricing  Delivery and Preservation  Clarifications  Final Words

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T. Long-Term Preservation of ACS Web Editions  Mission-Driven Society Objective  Heavy Investment in Infrastructure (Since 1975)  Archives Project: Scanning of Content Not Previously Available in Electronic Format  Tested Disaster Recovery (Since 1998)  Multiple Mirror Sites Under Consideration  Participation In LOCKSS

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T. ACS Web Editions – A Brief History  1998: Official Launch of Web Editions and ASAP Articles with 25% Surcharge  1999: Feedback from ICOLC Led to a Formal Cancellation Policy  2000: Reduction of Surcharge from 25% to 15%  2001: Print Cancellations Allowed  2002: Launch of ACS Journal Archives

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T. ACS Web Editions Cancellation Policy “Except for termination for cause, upon request at time of cancellation, ACS Web Edition customers will be provided access to the content contained in a current subscription of the ACS Web Editions to which they subscribed in the given year of cancellation.”

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T. ACS Journal Archives: Product  More Than:  2.5 Million Pages  11,000 ACS Journal Issues  500,000 Articles  Immediate Access at Desktop  Browse All Back Issues  Search Full-Text Across Articles  Content Back to 1879  CAS References Linked from 1907  ACS Responsibility to Migrate Content to New Technologies  Flexible and Open to Evolution of Product

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T. ACS Journal Archives: Pricing  Complex Issues, Many Points of View  Multiple Approaches and Models Evaluated for Two Years  Dialog with Librarians, Editors, and ACS Governance  No Single Policy that Meets Concerns of All Stakeholders  Policy Decision by ACS Governance in December 2001

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T. ACS Journal Archives: Pricing  Single Database of All Titles  Annual Access Fee

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T.  2002 Complete IT Environment Redesign - Integration of 2.5 Million New Pages - Revised Interface – Search and TOCs - Cross-Journal Searching, Free Abstracts  Clustered Servers Linked to a High Capacity Storage Area Network (SAN/Cluster Project) - 16 Unix Servers, Load Balancers, Redundant Servers, eRights Authentication, New Journal Delivery System, Oracle Databases, Increased Bandwidth ACS Journal Archives: Delivery and Preservation

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T.  Distinguishing “Current Subscription” from ACS Archives  “Current Subscription” = Current Year + 4 Previous Years  Introduced in 2000  Activated in 2002  Implemented in 2003  ACS Journal Archives = All Titles and All Content Preceding “Current Subscription” Clarifications

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T. Clarifications  For Archive Subscribers: Access to Everything – All Years – at Low Price  For Archive Nonsubscribers: PDF Content for Those Years Subscribed to as They Move from “Current Subscription” into the Archives (e.g., for 2003)

A C S P U B L I C A T I O N S H I G H Q U A L I T Y. H I G H I M P A C T.  Complexity of the “Great Transformation”  Evolving Policies and Practices  Challenges to our Collective Patience and Understanding  Serving our Common Purpose Final Words

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