Multinational Licence Agreement
TheScientificWorldJournal (TSWJ)
TheScientificWorldJOURNAL (TSWJ), launched in 2001 as an innovative way to gather, publish and organize scientific and medical information. An online scientific journal, TSWJ recognizes the multidisciplinary nature of science, which resists clear-cut definitions and covers subjects raging from biomedicine to environmental sciences.
A broad journal comprising of a series of overlapping domains and clusters, designed to challenge the traditional ‘pigeon-holing’ of published information into subject, process, system, geographical or society based categories.
TSWJ is set up to publish ‘dynamicREVIEWS’ and ‘datasets’ as well as conventional articles.
1. Content Description and title list
2. Subscription and Licensing Terms
3. Offer including pricing
4. Functionality and Standards Compliance
5. Library Support Information
1. Content Description
Background information may be found here:
http://www.thescientificworld.com/TSW/main/Static.asp?menuid=242&jid=141
All articles are currently published in TheScientificWorldJOURNAL (TSWJ).
Selected articles are grouped together according to subject matter in domains and clusters and some of these are available under different ISSN’s. This licence covers the entire content under the one ISSN 1537 744X.
Tables of Contents are available here grouped by months:
http://www.thescientificworld.com/TSW/toc/allarticles.asp?menuid=8&jid=141
Main Subject Areas
From Biomedicine to the Environment including health and some social sciences.
The scope of the journal can be found by looking at the here:
www.thescientificworld.com/TSW/DomainsAndClusters/alldomains.asp?menuid=17&jid=141&HL=5
And the here:
www.thescientificworld.com/TSW/DomainsAndClusters/BrowseSD.asp?menuid=18&jid=141&HL=6
Academic Level of Service
The TSWJ will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers.
Timeline of offer
Termination date for agreement: no fixed expiration.
Updates
As soon as articles are make available, it is integrated in TSWJ, with the option to subscribe to weekly Tables of Contents alerts.
Testimonials, Case Studies or User Reviews
Publisher's Selection Policy
Journals are reviewed by a broad editorial network of over 700 editors serving over 1,000 authors of over 2,000 publications. Each domain, just like regular journals, is designed to have Principal Editors, Associate Editors and an Editorial Board.
A submitted article may be assigned to an Editor of one domain and refereed by editors in related domains. The article, if accepted will be published in all the relevant domains according to the principles of system, process and approach meaning that authors can address all their potential audiences simultaneously.
Readers can find relevant in a range of material including journals and virtual journals, e-books and special issues and a reader for example; start at a domain, in genetics, knowing that any articles with a genetic component will be there. TSWJ is accepted by PubMed™ and ScholarGoogle™ and by other major databases for indexing, and is now accepted by Thomson Scientific™ for inclusion in the Science Citation Index™ and its Journal Citation Reports™.
TSW’s Editorial Network can be browsed (select All journals) or searched here:
http://www.thescientificworld.com/TSW/Editors/editorbydomain.asp?jid=141
Other Institutions that have expressed interest in or who are subscribing to this agreement
KE will update this section.
2. Subscription and Licensing Terms
The agreement will be for three years, starting from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011. Institutions can subscribe at any time, and can opt-out annually with no penalty on the anniversary of the starting date.
For instructions on how to subscribe, the pricing and to access the licence agreement, please see the subscription page on the local websites:
The agreement complies with the terms of the Knowledge Exchange Model Licence.
4. Functionality and Standards Compliance
Full Text Linking
Currently links are to the article-landing page with supporting metadata and link to full text.
Federated Searching
Not yet supported.
MARC Records
Not yet supported.
Metadata Standards
Our selection of metadata is being stored in the TSWJ database. Regularly these data are exported to PubMed (NCBI) and CrossRef format to the extent that our database covers the metadata that can be stored in the corresponding XML streams.
Search Options
See http://www.thescientificworld.com/TSW/search/shortReports.asp?menuid=11&jid=141&HL=2 for types of searches that can be conducted on the TSW site. Open URL is not yet supported.
Post Search Options
No special provision.
Usage Statistics
TSW can supply Counter compliant usage statistics on request.
Authentication
Username/ login, IP access. TSWJ plans to implement SAM L based authentication technologies.
Personalisation of the Online Resource
No special provision.
Accessibility
TSW plans to implement ongoing site improvements compliant as far as possible with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines where applicable so that all users of the participating institutions can benefit from access.
5. Library Support Information
Login URL
http://www.thescientificworld.com/TSW/main/home.asp?ocr=1&jid=141
Product Documentation
See for example: http://www.thescientificworld.co.uk/flyers/tswjflier06.pdf
Training Materials
See FAQs at http://www.thescientificworld.com/TSW/main/Static.asp?menuid=65&jid=141
Technical Support
tswsupport@dalicon.com and information@thescientificworld.com
Administrative Support
information@thescientificworld.com
User Support
information@thescientificworld.com
Trial Access
information@thescientificworld.com
Knowledge Exchange contacts
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