CLOCKSS Archive announces participation of five new publishers in its digital preservation archive - August 16, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of five new publishers in its digital preservation archive. The publishers are: Duke University Press, NZCER Press, New Prairie Press, Mathematical Sciences Publishers and Copernicus Publications. Duke University Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences and… Read More
OCLC publishes bibliographic linked data for most widely held works in WorldCat - August 16, 2012
OCLC, a US-based non-profit, membership, computer library service and research organisation, has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable file - representing nearly 1.2 million resources - contains about 80 million linked data 'triples,' the term for the most… Read More
LWW announces enhancements to Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor online point-of-Care reference - August 15, 2012
Healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has incorporated several evidence-based content enhancements to Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor, an online clinical decision-support solution used by nurses in hospitals and other healthcare institutions. Key upgrades include the establishment a dedicated paediatric specialty… Read More
Totally and BMJ Evidence Centre announce strategic partnership for shared decision making programme - August 15, 2012
Totally, the AIM quoted digital health and technical solutions company, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the BMJ Evidence Centre, part of the BMJ Group, to assist the Company in the delivery of the £1.6 million national NHS Shared Decision Making contract that Totally secured… Read More
Fifty seven UK Academic Libraries now participating in Portico - August 15, 2012
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced the expansion of its digital preservation services to twenty more academic libraries in the UK. This brings the total number of UK participating institutions to fifty-seven. JISC has been providing consultation and guiding adoption of digital… Read More
Northwestern University joins VIVO network with Elsevier’s SciVal Experts - August 13, 2012
Northwestern University, in collaboration with STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced its participation in VIVO, a semantic network that enables the discovery of researchers across institutions. By bringing its researchers together in a single hub called Northwestern Scholars, an implementation of Elsevier's SciVal Experts research networking… Read More
