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  • noun Plural form of backfile.

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  • The relationship between JSTOR and the University of Chicago Press dates back to 1996 when the Press became one of the first publishers to store journal backfiles in the JSTOR digital archive.

    JSTOR’s Current Scholarship Program Gets a New Member, The University of Chicago Press « ResourceShelf 2010

  • Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of Century of Social Sciences, a set of backfiles covering groundbreaking research in the social sciences back to 1900.

    September 2009 2009

  • I'll try to put up a permalink when he backfiles the Aug. 17 post.

    More on Health Care Reform Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • I'll try to put up a permalink when he backfiles the Aug. 17 post.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • During this time, access to the backfiles of Science and Scientific Monthly has been greatly expanded through the availability of the JSTOR Health & General Sciences collection at over 1,000 institutions as well as at 600 other organizations through our special programs providing the full JSTOR archive to secondary schools, public libraries, museums and institutions in developing nations.

    August 2007 2007

  • Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of Century of Social Sciences, a set of backfiles covering groundbreaking research in the social sciences back to 1900.

    Thomson Reuters introduces Century of Social Sciences 2009

  • Koninklijke Brill NV has announced that the content of virtually all of its older journal backfiles will become available online in early 2008.

    August 2007 2007

  • Thus many journal publishers now make their backlists or backfiles, as they are called, open access after six months or one year; sometimes this form of open access is mandated by funding agencies.

    The Baby and the Bath Water 2008

  • • Academic libraries spent $94 million for electronic books, serials backfiles, and other materials in FY 2006.

    Stephen's Lighthouse: Latest Academic Library Statistics (2006) 2008

  • • At the end of FY 2006, there were 221 academic libraries that held 1 million or more books, serial backfiles, and other paper materials, including government documents.

    Stephen's Lighthouse: Latest Academic Library Statistics (2006) 2008

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