OCLC has added 145 new journals from 17 publishers to its FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online. Among the new titles are 64 journals from Oxford University Press.
OCLC has completed negotiations for the addition of 400 more titles.
The full-text of the journals is accessible through the indexes in the FirstSearch databases. Ongoing access is provided for most titles because the publishers have agreed to let OCLC establish a permanent electronic archive.
OCLC also reported that 15,000 libraries around the world use the FirstSearch service. They performed nearly 62 million searches over the past 12 months, a 23% increase over the previous twelve months.
Other recently released OCLC statistics for the past 12 months show overall growth in participants from 30,154 to 34,775, 2.2 million new cataloging records, and an increase in location listings from 668 to 720 million.
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