To meet this demand, the Royal Society of Chemistry are pleased to announce that their Retrodigitisation Project is underway. The backfile will contain all articles published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 1996. It is estimated the backfile will contain 200,000 articles in 1,200,000 pages. It is planned that the project will be completed during the course of this year. We are currently working hard to ensure that there is a high level of quality and accuracy in this large undertaking.
The articles will be available via issue contents lists. They will also be accessible from full-text (unspecific) searches of the PDF files and by more specific searches of the bibliographic information and (from 1966 to 1996) abstract. A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) will be assigned to each article. This will allow the DOI to be used as another access route to the article.
In addition, the references in the 1990-1996 articles will contain "reference links" to full text and CAS abstracts, where available, similar to that now offered for the 1997-2003 articles.
The articles in the backfile will be delivered to customers on the web in the same way, using the same system, as the "current data" (1997 onwards).
For additional information, and to register for updates on the progress of the project, please visit www.rsc.org/retrodigitisation