New at JSTOR

THE /BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL/ AND /SCIENCE NEWS/ TO JOIN JSTOR’s
HEALTH & GENERAL SCIENCES COLLECTION

New York, NY— The /British Medical Journal/, one of the oldest and
most widely read peer-reviewed medical titles, has begun
collaborating with JSTOR to make their complete back files available
through JSTOR, the not-for-profit online scholarly journal archive.
The /BMJ/, founded in 1840, features past issues and articles
totaling more than 350,000 pages. /BMJ/ will be offered through
JSTOR’s Health & General Sciences Collection and is expected to be
available to JSTOR participants in late 2007.

A total of five of the BMJ Group’s public health and ethics
journals will be offered through JSTOR’s Health & General Sciences
Collection, including the /Journal of Epidemiology/ and /Community
Health, Tobacco Control,/ the /Journal of Medical Ethics/, and
/Occupational and Environmental Medicine/, in addition to the /BMJ/.


JSTOR has also begun to collaborate with /Science News/ to make
their back files available to JSTOR participants. /Science News/ is
an award-winning weekly periodical covering important research in all
science fields. /Science News/ began in 1922 as the /Science
News-Letter/, whose articles focused on “the early days of atomic
energy, the beginning of modern genetics, and many other
developments.” Their publisher, Science Service, has a mission to
“advance public understanding and appreciation of science among
people of all ages through publications and educational programs.”
/Science News/ will also be available through the Health & General
Sciences Collection with an anticipated availability of late 2007.

JSTOR’s Health & General Sciences Collection, formerly the General
Science Collection, originally featured several of the most important
historical scientific journals published: /Science, PNAS/, and the
publications of the Royal Society of London. The back issues included
in this archive extend back to the seventeenth century and in total
covers more than eight hundred years of journal publication. In
September 2006, the collection was renamed Health & General Sciences
to reflect the inclusion of journals in the health sciences,
including important journals in nursing, epidemiology, and other
health sciences topics. We are pleased to announce JSTOR’s
collaboration with the /British Medical Journal/ and /Science News/,
as they will add further historical and topical depth to this
collection.

Participation fees for the Health & General Sciences Collection will
remain unchanged, and existing participants will have access to these
new titles as soon as they are publicly available. There will be no
overlap of content between the Health & General Sciences Collection
and any of the multi-discipline Arts & Sciences Collections or the
Biological Sciences Collections in JSTOR. Two titles from the Health
& General Sciences Collection will continue to be offered through the
Mathematics & Statistics Collection: /Philosophical Transactions:
Mathematical/, /Physical and Engineering Sciences and Proceedings:
Mathematical/, /Physical and Engineering Sciences/.