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Japanese scientific society suspends journal publication saying it has 'completed its role'

‘The indexing landscape is very good at keeping track of what’s coming out,’ Mikael Laakso, an information scientist at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, who co-authored the 2021 study, said at the time. After looking into this, the library discovered that Heterocycles had subscribed to a service called CLOCKSS, a dark archive of around 55 billion journal articles and 490,000 books that aims to digitally preserve scholarly literature. Alicia Wise, executive director of CLOCKSS in Surrey, UK, confirmed that her organisation does hold a complete record of Heterocycles.

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