Legacy Articles

There are a growing number of societies and publishers who consider that their periodicals are worthy of electronic archiving. There is also a strong movement within the academic community pressing for such material to be made more easily available to advance scientific research and increase the academic "cannon".

Archive Benefits include:

• A greater awareness of the society and the journal to a wider audience, thus increasing the prospect of enlarging the membership of the already successful printed journal
• To open up new revenue sources for the society
• To ensure the original articles are preserved for ever. (eg. not subject to fire or physical damage)
• Substantially reducing storage and retrieval costs in the long run
• To give current / new members the capability to locate any article for research, thus increasing knowledge and encouraging the study and practise of a particle field

SomCom archive solution

• Fully searchable - Instead of just searching headers and abstracts (which is common in some on line databases) SC have written a specialised program that can key word search the whole article, even though SomCom are delivering PDF (i.e. similar to photocopied) files of ordered articles to the end user. This gives far superior search capabilities than other legacy online databases, but gives no public access to the articles themselves.
• Incorporate an E-commerce solution and (or) members restricted area into your website to allow search access to all the legacy data, displaying only the abstracts. Provide legacy back articles via online purchasing using email and PDF files as the delivery route.

The most cost effective full text search solution

SomCom has the capability to offer a self financing online legacy data solution offering minimal financial risk.