Publisher To Put Science Journals Online

The content and access war among the big STM publishers continues: German science publisher Springer Science + Business Media will start in January to put all back issues of its 1,250 scientific journals on the Internet, some of which date back to 1886…

The company was spending $18 million to produce online versions of Springer’s journals…

Making content available online is a key battleground among scientific publishers including market leader Reed Elsevier, No. 2 Springer, and Wolters Kluwer as the Internet and tightening library budgets transform the industry.

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