University of Nebraska–Lincoln selects Ex Libris’ Rosetta to manage and preserve digital collections - June 25, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) has adopted the Rosetta digital preservation solution. The university will implement Rosetta across the entire campus to preserve the school's renowned digital humanities collections, campus websites, research data, and… Read More
More than one million articles accessed by individuals participating in JSTOR’s Register & Read programme - June 25, 2013
JSTOR, the not-for-profit digital library of thousands of academic journals and other content, has announced that more than one million articles have now been accessed by individuals participating in its free programme, Register & Read. The archive collections, which constitute the core of the JSTOR… Read More
Blackboard launches xpLor, a shared content repository that supports multiple LMS platforms - June 25, 2013
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc., US, has announced the release of xpLor, a content platform that gives educators unprecedented ability to create, discover and share rich course materials across systems and institutions. xpLor claims to be the industry's first cloud-based learning object repository… Read More
Cell Press journals show significant increases in multiple citation-based measures of impact - June 25, 2013
Science published in Cell Press journals continues to deliver high impact across the research community as reflected in the measures of citation recently released in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters. Looking across impact factor (IF) and immediacy… Read More
Impact Factor success for open access publisher BioMed Central - June 25, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that its flagship journal Genome Biology passed a major milestone this week, increasing its Impact Factor to double figures in the Thomson Reuters 2012 Journal Citation Report (JCR). The new Impact Factor of 10.288 confirms its position as the… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry journals continue to show Impact Factor growth - June 24, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its publishing portfolio has once again shown outstanding excellence, with the publication of the latest Impact Factors (IF) report from Thomson Reuters. Six out of the top 20 multidisciplinary chemistry journals are published by the RSC. The… Read More
