GeoScienceWorld Launches Web Portal to Earth Science Journals

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) announced the launch of its new portal containing 30 leading geoscience journals plus GeoRef on Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. The initial GSW collection incorporates the full-text of 30 journals from 22 leading societies and institutes from six countries. Full-access to all content will be freely available to anyone visiting the site until March 30, 2005. Following the first months free-trial period, anyone will be able to view the titles and abstracts of articles in the GSW journals. Paid subscribers will also have access to the full-text articles, in both HTML and PDF formats, and the ability to search and link using GeoRef. Most of the journals will be complete with full text back to 2000. In addition, subscribers will also have access to older issues of some journals going back as far as 1931.