Synergy will encompass over 200 journals by 2000 making over 30,000 articles available to the research community in a number of subject areas including medicine and biology. Many of these titles are published on behalf of prestigious learned societies, whose input has helped shape the service. Blackwell Science and Munksgaard have launched Synergy , their full-text online journals service. The service was launched on schedule in the first week of January and provides access to a range of Scientific, Technical and Medical journals. The number of titles will now build rapidly to over 200 by the end of the year.
Registration is free and allows access to the full text of a sample issue from each journal.
All individual articles are available via online document delivery with fully integrated online credit card processing. Paid subscription to an online journal gives full access to all of its articles. Further functional updates are planned throughout 1999. Blackwell Science and Munksgaard have re-engineered their operations to incorporate digital content as early as possible in the production process. As a result, they hold digital content back to 1996 for many titles.