Fast Facts: OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC)

What is the EJC?

The Electronic Journal Center is a collection of more than 8,200 full-text research journals from 100+ publishers, covering a wide range of disciplines. Researchers can download electronic articles instantly, read entire journal issues online, create e-mail or RSS alerts for new issues, save searches, and set up automatic search alerts for new search results.

History

1998 – The Electronic Journal Center debuted with the complete collections of Elsevier Science and Academic Press. Roughly 1,400 journal titles were available initially.

1999 – OhioLINK received Council of State Government’s Innovations Award for the Electronic Journal Center.

2002 – 49th EJC publisher added

2007 – 108th EJC publisher added

Access

Current students, faculty and staff at participating OhioLINK institutions can access the EJC online from any location.

Benefits

OhioLINK users have access to a much wider array of scholarly materials than is available through local library’s print collections. On average Ohio’s major universities hold an average of only 25% of the available scholarly journals, but users at those institutions utilize 80% of the available EJC titles.
The OhioLINK EJC allows libraries to cooperatively purchase scholarly journals by providing immediate online access to shared content.

Financial

Total cost for 2007: $26.1 million
Cost funded by OhioLINK: $4.3 million
Cost funded by OhioLINK Libraries: $21.8 million
Estimated cost to duplicate in print at universities: $105 million

Statistics

The EJC contains more than 8,200 journals and 12.2 million articles from 100+ publishers (through February 2009).
Users downloaded more than 6.8 million articles from the EJC from March 2008 through February 2009.
More than 42.7 million total articles have been downloaded from the EJC since 1998.

Publishers Included in the EJC

Academic Press
American Chemical Society
American Institute of Physics
American Physical Society
American Psychological Association
Association for Computing Machinery
Berkeley Electronic Press
BioMed Central
BioOne
Blackwell Publishing
Blackwell Science
Cambridge University Press
Duke University Press
Elsevier Science
Humana Press
Ingenta (contains 13 publishers)
Institute of Physics
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Kluwer Law
Lawerence Erlbaum Associates
MCB University Press
Optical Society of America
Oxford University Press
Project MUSE (66 publishers)
The Royal Society
Royal Society of Chemistry
Sage Publications
Springer-Verlag
Thieme Medical Publishers
Transaction Publishers
Wiley InterScience

Last Update: April 2009