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The Company of Biologists has completed the digital retroconversion of the archives of its journal, Development. The entire contents of Development’s predecessor, JEEM (the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology) are now freely available online.

The complete archive of JEEM, from its first issue in 1953 through to the final one in 1986 (after which the journal was renamed Development) can be accessed through Development’s website  (http://dev.biologists.org). It comprises over 40,000 pages of material, published over 33 years, and is now made available online for the first time. The archive is entirely free of charge for everyone irrespective of whether a personal or institutional subscription is held for Development’s current content.

The JSTOR ejournals service has a new interface. Navigating the database and retrieving information is made easier by the following new features:

• The ability to limit by discipline within Basic Search
• Previous searches can be re-run as searches are automatically saved
• When a search is run, you can carry out another search within the list of results
• Advanced Search now offers proximity searching so that you can search for one word or term within 5, 10 or 25 words of another
• Advanced Search now has a journal title search box
• The ‘MyJSTOR’ feature allows you to take advantage of personalised features – you can save and email citations and export them to bibliographic software
• The Browse option allows you to browse by publisher (as well as by discipline and title)
• Printing and saving in pdf format is now simpler
• You can view thumbnails of the pages of an article
• ‘Images in JSTOR’ allows you to search for images within the database

More information in the LIS Guide to JSTOR: http://www.swan.ac.uk/media/Media,7608,en.pdf