The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announces that the government of Brazil has partnered with AAAS to obtain sitewide access to Science Classic, the digital archive of Science from 1880 to 1996, for use by the institutions of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes Consortium), the nation's extensive information portal.

Capes offers immediate access to international, national, and foreign journals in all areas of knowledge to researchers, professors, students, and librarians of more than 311 Brazilian research centers and institutions of higher learning. In an effort to increase the amount of scientific resources available to its users, Capes added Science Classic to its Portal de Periodicos.

"By accessing Science Classic's digital back files, our users may learn more about the many questions and the revolutionary aspects of most scientific discoveries of the past 130 years," observed Elenara de Almeida, general coordinator of Capes' Portal de Periodicos. "We are always interested in discussing with AAAS initiatives that help improve access to relevant scientific information through the Portal de Periodicos. Making available AAAS's Science Classic content to users of the Portal de Periodicos will be an important advancement to Brazilian students and researchers, who will be able to understand more about the process of development of scientific knowledge in the world."

With every issue of Science from 1880 to 1996, Science Classic delivers more than a hundred years' worth of full-text news articles, commentary, reviews, perspectives, and peer-reviewed research papers. Science Classic citations are included in PubMed. AAAS recently uploaded the entire collection of Science journal covers, so that Science Classic subscribers can now view thumbnail images of the covers from every issue dating back to 1880.

To see the complete digital archive, please go to www.ScienceOnline.org/archive/#classic