Teagasc has received notification that its peer reviewed journal Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research has been included in JSTOR’s Ireland Collection. The Ireland Collection, created in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast, and JSTOR’s first regional collection was launched on August 7, 2008. With funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme, the Ireland Collection is being made available freely to institutions in Ireland and the United Kingdom. When completed it will contain 2,500 manuscripts, 200 monographs, and 75 ceased and currently publishing journals.
Access to the Ireland Collection is available without fees to any non-commercial institutions in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
According to JSTOR “The Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research is a vital part of the collection’s resources in the biological sciences”.
For more on the Ireland collection on JSTOR see: http://www.jstor.org/action/showJournals?browseType=collectionInfoPage&selectCollection=ireland.
The entire collection of back issues of the Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research since its inception in 1961 are now available on JSTOR, and are also searchable via Google Scholar.
More about JSTOR Ireland Collection:
http://www.jstor.org/templates/jsp/_jstor/templates/info/about/archives/irelandHandout.pdf
