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Archival rights

Continuing journal access for you

Your library retains the right to access all journals to which you have subscribed even after you discontinue subscriptions to any of them. In addition, if you discontinue your Electronic Collections Online access account, OCLC will maintain your subscription profile for five years. If you renew your access account before five years have passed, you will regain access to all of the journals to which you had subscribed.

Robust archival rights for us

In its contractual agreements with publishers, OCLC retains the rights to mount all content at OCLC and create a permanent electronic archive. This includes the right to store all the journal content delivered to OCLC during the period of the contract and to provide ongoing access to libraries that have subscribed to this content, even if the publisher terminates its agreement with OCLC.

All contingencies are covered

Not only do we have the right to store journal content, but we also have offsite storage and plans for migration of content to new formats as they evolve. Find out what we're doing to secure Electronic Collections Online.