Licensing the Blackwell Publishing Collection

We offer a choice of licensing options for libraries, multi-site institutions and library consortia wishing to greatly enhance their serials collections and provide their patrons with access to hundreds more journals for a fraction of the full subscription cost. Options are available for libraries preferring to maintain print and for those ready to go online only. Additional options are available for institutions which wish to share access to subscribed titles across a consortium or to commit to licensing journals over a multi-year period.

The most popular option available is where libraries license access to one or more of Blackwell's Collections of online journals annually, with online access to a fixed list of titles provided for a fixed top-up fee with libraries maintaining their existing subscriptions, in print or online formats.

Licensing Blackwell's Collection of journals provides excellent value with typically high usage and low cost per use. Blackwell's Collection licensing terms provide access to additional journals not just for the period of the license, but in perpetuity, where Blackwell has society consents to grant such rights.

Collections Available in 2008

• Full Collection  797 journals
• Science, Technology and Medicine Collection  424 journals
• Social Science and Humanities Collection  373 journals
• Medicine and Nursing Collection  234 journals        

Please note that some journals are not available as part of the Blackwell Publishing Collections and must be subscribed to separately. This includes some young journals and transferring journals. 

For a full list of the journals included in the Collections and those available on a subscription basis only, please click here.

Licensing Terms include:

• Unlimited access through IP authentication
• Athens, trusted proxy, or remote username and password also available
• Access to current issues plus to OnlineEarly articles, published online before print
• Access to recent backfiles published since January 1st 1997
• Perpetual archival rights to paid for content, where Blackwell retains the rights to deliver this
• Walk-in users are permitted
• Course-pack use is permitted
• Inter-Library Loan from the electronic copy is permitted (printed from the electronic copy)
• COUNTER-compliant usage data is available