Extra! Q&A: Blackwell Publishing’s Alan Bacon ... on Blackwell’s New Journal Digitization Project
Extra!: Can you explain Blackwell’s Journal Backfile Digitization Program and how exactly will Techbooks assist with this project?
Bacon: In common with some other publishers, we have decided that for most, but not all, of our journals we want to provide an online service for back content ... that’s anything from back 10 years to maybe 120 years, depending on the title. Basically the way that Techbooks is involved is we try to source the content ... from societies or libraries or backfile agents. We then provide those paper copies to Techbooks who carries out the scanning, turns them into PDF files and then generates XML. ... We tend not to do XML-generation for the full text because it’s so hugely expensive. So we have a default for most of our backfiles, which is XML headers and references. That enables us to provide some sort of added value services in terms of, particularly, external linking for author names, keywords and bibliographic references so that we can link to things like PubMed ...
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