Skip Navigation

Oxford Journals’ agreement with CALIS broadens China’s access to scholarly content

6 February 2008

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with the Chinese Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), giving a large number of libraries in China the opportunity to access the Oxford Journals Collection. Oxford Journals has become the first publisher to sign an agreement with CALIS since the consortium reformed its purchase procedures in August 2006.

Funded primarily by the Chinese government, CALIS is a nationwide academic library consortium with a mission to promote, maintain, and improve resource-sharing among Chinese university libraries and other libraries and institutions.

CALIS’ agreement with Oxford Journals gives up to 600 of their member institutions the option to subscribe at an affordable price to a package of around 200 prestigious titles across six subject areas (medicine, life sciences, mathematics and physical sciences, humanities and social sciences).

In 2006 Oxford Journals signed agreements with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). Oxford Journals’ agreements with CALIS, CAS, and CAAS ensure that high quality scholarly content can be accessed by a large number of academics and opinion leaders in China.

“We are committed to disseminating our top-quality research as widely as possible and supporting scholarship across Asia, and so we are delighted that this deal offers access to our journals to so many Chinese researchers and students,” commented Martin Richardson, Managing Director, Oxford Journals.

Ms. Shi Mei, Deputy Director of Nanjing University Library, was pleased that
“Oxford Journals has shown a good understanding of the needs of Chinese University libraries. The agreement will enable Chinese researchers across all subject areas to make good use of OUP’s high quality journals.”

The agreement has immediate effect and is valid until the end of 2009. Institutions which opt in will be eligible to access the Oxford Journals Collection dating back to 1996.

For more information on the deal in Chinese, please see: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/china/for_librarians/calis_notice.html

For more information on the Oxford Journals Collection, please see:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/for_librarians/collection_sales.html

ENDS

For more information, please contact:

In China:
Young Cui
Deputy Director, China, Oxford Journals
+86 10 8520 0522

In the UK:
Kirsty Luff
Senior Communication and Marketing Manager, Oxford Journals
+44 (0)1865 354206


Notes to Editors

Chinese Academic Library and Information System(CALIS) is a nationwide academic library consortium which is funded primarily by Chinese government. Its mission is to promote, maintain, and improve library resource-sharing among Chinese university libraries and other libraries and institutions. Read more about CALIS

Oxford University Press (OUP), a department of the University of Oxford, is the world's largest and most international university press. Founded in 1478, it currently publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals. Read more about OUP

Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, publishes over 210 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. Read more about Oxford Journals

Celebrating over 100 years of Journals publishing 1906-2007
Visit the Oxford Journals centenary collection online