The Biochemical Journal is celebrating its centenary in 2006 and the first event to mark this milestone was a reception at the British Library in London. Philip Cohen's first official duty as the President of the Biochemical Society was to present Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, with a newly digitized complete back archive of the Biochemical Journal starting from volume 1 in 1906.

The complete archive of research comprises 340,000 pages, 392 volumes and 1340 issues of the Biochemical Journal and is freely available online at [url">http://www.biochemj.org