Sixty-Three Years of California Agriculture Journal Now Online.

Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture

OAKLAND, Calif., July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- On July 1, California Agriculture capped off a 2-year effort with a keystroke, posting the full text of 63 years - close to 6,000 articles - to the World Wide Web. This rich store of peer-reviewed science dating back to 1946 is now freely accessible and searchable at the journal's redesigned Web site: http://californiaagriculture.ucanr.org .

The previous California Agriculture Web site included articles back to 2000. Until now, however, most of the journal's long history of research has been in the shadows, accessible only as bound volumes in the stacks of a few UC libraries and others scattered around the world.

"This highly valuable research is now widely available online for the benefit of authors, readers and scientists worldwide," says Janet White, executive editor of California Agriculture journal. "Our old, well-worn hard copies have been transformed into high-quality, reusable XML-based content and full-text PDFs, with the highest levels of data integrity and readability."

Published by the University of California, California Agriculture began as a four-page broadsheet in December 1946. Today both print and Web versions are known for presenting new, peer-reviewed research in a meaningful context with technical terms defined - making it accessible to a diverse audience of people who can use it, taking the final step in the research and delivery process.

California Agriculture is one of the oldest, continuously published, land-grant university research ...