UC San Diego named founding partner of National Digital Stewardship Alliance - November 18, 2010
The University of California, San Diego Libraries have been named founding partners of the Library of Congress' National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA). The libraries expect to play a leadership role in mapping out national standards and best practices for preserving and sharing digital content via the… Read More
French university migrates to latest version of ProQuest platform - November 18, 2010
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that France's Université Lumière Lyon II has migrated to the latest version of the ProQuest platform, which allows students and faculty to search, discover, gather and share content. According to the company, users will now be able… Read More
Google and Hachette Livre announce book scanning deal - November 18, 2010
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has announced an agreement with French publisher Hachette Livre to scan thousands of out-of-print French books for Google's online library. The two companies said in a statement they had settled previous disagreements and signed a memorandum of understanding that… Read More
SAGE launches new open access journal for the social sciences - November 18, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced the launch of SAGE Open - a new publication to support open access publishing in the social and behavioural sciences and the humanities. SAGE Open will publish peer-reviewed original research and review articles in an interactive, open… Read More
Global network to analyse impact of science on society - November 18, 2010
The International Conference on Science in Society, organised for the first time in Spain by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), approved the creation of a global network for researchers in this area to foment a field which is perceived to be one of the most… Read More
ECS researcher highlights need for more transparency in Web-based information systems - November 17, 2010
The need for more transparency in Web-based information systems has been highlighted by an academic at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science. In a paper entitled 'The Foundations for Provenance on the Web', published in the journal Foundations and Trends in Web… Read More
