Thanks to everyone who let me know about e-journal back files available. To
recap, what I asked for was e-journal backfile packages that have a one-time
fee with no annual fee (unlike JSTOR, for example, which has a significant
annual maintenance fee). I received the following information from
publishers and SERIALST subscribers. Some backfiles truly have no annual
fee; others do have a small one:

1. ANNUAL REVIEWS
The Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection covers all Annual
Reviews articles from our inception in 1932 through the
current-year-minus-five. That's over 1100 separate volumes and over 23,000
articles! The Collection is yours for a one-time purchase price, with no
maintenance fees. Regardless of which titles you take in current
subscriptions, the Back Volume Collection includes all Annual Reviews
titles; and it grows annually as long as you maintain even one subscription
to current content.  (If you cancel all your current subscriptions – Heaven
forbid! – the Collection ceases to grow, but you maintain access to it as it
stands at the time of cancellation.)

2. NATURE
The Nature archive is broken up into three sections that are available as
individual, one-time purchases with no annual fees.  They cover the years
1869-1949, 1950-1986 and 1987-1996.

3. SAGE
Sage Deep Backfile   The Deep Backfile includes 301 backfile full text
journals back to Volume 1, Issue 1, through the last issue of 1998. Annual
access fee waived for 15 or more years in some cases.

4. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
ACS Legacy Archives. See http://pubs.acs.org/archives/promo/index.html. The
ACS Legacy Archives provides full-text searching and instant access to all
titles, volumes, issues, and articles published by the ACS from 1879 to
1995.   The ACS features a one-time payment option to access ACS Legacy
Archives. This one-time payment option secures ongoing access rights to the
Archives content. Customers who choose the one-time payment option access
the Archives from ACS servers and are charged a nominal annual maintenance
fee.

5. EMERALD

6. BLACKWELL
Blackwell Journal Backfiles currently include 313 journals spanning 4.2
million digitized pages, with a further 187 journals due to be completed
before the end of 2008. Covering 118 years of original, research and
thinking, Blackwell Journal Backfiles represent an excellent archive of
leading brands and top society publications such as: Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Ceramic Society and the British
Journal of Dermatology.

Blackwell Journal Backfiles can be purchased for a one-time fee for the
whole collection, by subject area, or you can pick and choose individual
titles to suit your institution's needs: choose from the Full Collection,
STM Collection, HSS Collection or pick individual titles.

Number of titles currently available by subject area::

    * Social and Behavioral Science - 72 titles
    * Life and Physical Science - 67 titles
    * Medicine - 57 titles
    * Business, Economics, Finance, Accounting, Math and Stats - 45 titles
    * Nursing, Health and Dentistry - 28 titles
    * Humanities - 20 titles
    * Agriculture and Animal Sciences - 12 titles
    * Engineering, Computing and Technology - 6 titles
    * Law - 6 titles

For a complete listing of Blackwell backfiles by subject area, go to:
www.blackwellpublishing.com/backfiles

7. WILEY
Wiley's backfiles are sold in collections.  All collections are listed here:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/browsebycollection
We have a 5% discount for licensing 2-4 collections and 10% off 5 or more.

8. CAMBRIDGE
Collections and full collection coming soon, but not available yet. Now they
only have backfile of J of Fluid Mechanics.

9. OXFORD
• Content from 1849-1995
• Over 3 million article pages

• Only $0.06 cents per page
• 142 journals

10. SPRINGER
Springer Online Archives Collection. Eleven Online Library Packages being
offered include:
 Behavioral Sciences
 Biomedical and Life Sciences
 Business and Economics
 Chemistry and Materials Science
 Computer Science
 Earth and Environmental Sciences
 Engineering
 Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
 Mathematics
 Medicine
 Physics and Astronomy
Journals may be assigned to more than one
package. Exclusions include journals not
presently online, some co-published journals,
those that have none of their content
printed in English, or were discontinued
before 1995.

11. INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (IOP)

12. IGI GLOBAL
Perpetual access to the backfile, which begins with the year
2000, can also be purchased for an additional one-time fee.

IGI Global is not currently charging a maintenance fee to institutions
that have purchased perpetual access.

13. AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
'Legacy content' for the American Journal of Physiology

14. SCIENCE DIRECT / ELSEVIER

15. TAYLOR & FRANCIS
11 collections available; price ranges from $11K to $65K. Annual maintenance
fees in the neighborhood of $495 - $750. Discounts available if more than
one package is selected.

16. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Backfile of one journal only: The Duke Mathematical Journal: Volumes 1–100

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Andree Rathemacher
Associate Professor
Head, Serials Unit
University Library, University of Rhode Island
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