What is the history of the CRADA between NCI and Oxford University Press?
Under the terms of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with NCI, which began in August 1996 and ran for about five years, Oxford University Press (OUP) gradually took over responsibility for the Journal and became the sole owner at the end of the privatization process. Throughout that process, each party to the agreement contributed a portion of the resources, with OUP assuming a greater portion as time progressed. At the end of the CRADA, OUP assumed full ownership and all costs. The JNCI now is not supported nor controlled by the U.S. government. The two main goals of the CRADA were transfer and maintenance of the systems and standards responsible for the quality of the Journal and the development of an enhanced online version of the Journal. The Journal has been available online since 1997, and full back contents are now available online starting with 1996. The contents of the online Journal were identical to those in the printed version until 2002, when online data sup
