Strategic Content Alliance and Collections Trust publish report on Orphaned Works - June 12, 2009
The Strategic Content Alliance and the Collections Trust have published a report according to which access to over 50 million items held in trust by publicly funded agencies such as libraries, museums, archives and universities are being prevented from being available online due to current copyright… Read More
Scopus includes ERIH journals to expand arts & humanities coverage - June 12, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Scopus, its abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, has almost doubled its current arts & humanities (A&H) titles to 3,500. Scopus has added various global journals using the European Science Foundation's European Reference Index for Humanities (ERIH). This… Read More
US student organisations call for increased open access to research - June 12, 2009
A coalition of national and regional college student associations has issued a statement titled 'Student Statement on the Right to Research.' The statement calls on universities, research funders and researchers to take action in support of open access (OA) to research. Coalition partners include the American Medical Student Association, the… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health signs preservation deal with Portico - June 12, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US. Under the deal, Portico will preserve more than 300 periodicals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), Adis International, and Facts… Read More
IOP Publishing joins Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certification programme - June 12, 2009
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced a partnership with e-resource access and management services provider Serials Solutions, US, to become KnowledgeWorks Certified. The KnowledgeWorks Certified programme helps Serials Solutions maintain the highest quality bibliographic metadata for e-resources.… Read More
ATP and GE partner to provide CF700 and CJ610 digital engine publications - June 12, 2009
General aviation solutions provider Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP), US, has announced an exclusive agreement with GE to distribute all digital engine technical publications for the CF700 and CJ610 engines. The GE engine publications and ADs are available separately or can be purchased with other ATP libraries.… Read More
