HathiTrust announces intention to become a DPN replicating node - November 12, 2013
HathiTrust recently announced its intention to become a 'replicating node' in the Digital Preservation Network, contingent upon acceptable terms and conditions for doing so. HathiTrust is one of five institutions or consortia that have been collaborating over the past year to… Read More
F1000Research launches data plotting tool at Neuroscience meeting in San Diego - November 12, 2013
Open Access life-sciences journal F1000Research launched a new data plotting tool at the ongoing Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. The tool enables referees and readers to visualise and manipulate the raw data within the journal's articles. This is a significant step forward in enabling data peer… Read More
IDSA announces new OA journal, Open Forum Infectious Diseases - November 12, 2013
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has named Dr. Paul Sax as the editor-in-chief of the Society's new peer-reviewed, open access journal, Open Forum Infectious Diseases (OFID). Oxford University Press (OUP) will begin publishing the new journal in early 2014. OFID will seek to… Read More
Jisc and Ex Libris announce collaboration to support UK academic libraries - November 11, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has entered into a collaborative agreement with Jisc to help academic libraries manage their e‑resources. The collaboration will improve library efficiency by continually updating data from Jisc's Knowledge Base+ (KB+) to the KnowledgeBase of the… Read More
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems set to launch in mid-2014 - November 11, 2013
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced the mid-2014 launch of the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS). The journal will cover fundamental research and applications focused on the full range of astronomical instrumentation. The new journal responds to the… Read More
HathiTrust releases new bibliographic metadata management system – Zephir - November 11, 2013
HathiTrust has announced the release of a new, state-of-the-art bibliographic management system for its 11-million volume digital repository. The new system, called Zephir, is developed and managed by the California Digital Library, and represents the first distributed development of a major repository component outside the University… Read More
