Springer, CLOCKSS in deal to support sustainable digital preservation - December 5, 2008
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced a partnership with the community-governed archive cooperative Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS) to preserve Springer content in the CLOCKSS global archive. Springer publishes over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as… Read More
DRJ Japan, DRIVER to work together to promote digital repositories - December 5, 2008
Digital Repository Federation (DRF) Japan and Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER) have signed an agreement to work closely together on promoting federated repository infrastructures. The move follows the recently held SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008. DRIVER is a joint initiative of European stakeholders,… Read More
JISC to form new committee – JISC Infrastructure and Resources committee - December 5, 2008
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that following a review of JISC's committee structure, the JISC Board has decided that from August 2009 certain key changes will be made to that structure. It was decided in particular that a new committee - the… Read More
China’s Higher Education Press selects Manuscript Central for the online journal management - December 5, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that China's Higher Education Press (HEP) has chosen Manuscript Central for the online journal management of 'Frontiers of Computer Science in China', a series of journals initiated and supported by the Ministry of Education of the People's… Read More
HighWire Press reaches milestone of 5 million articles online - December 5, 2008
Online technology provider in scholarly publishing HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has reached a significant milestone with the posting of the five millionth article on its e-Publishing platform. HighWire provides technology and customised online services to 140 publishing partners ranging from independent… Read More
ICIS pricing launches new PMMA Asia weekly report - December 5, 2008
Pricing and market intelligence service provider ICIS Pricing, US, has launched a new weekly PMMA (Polymethyl Methacrylate) Asia price and market intelligence report. The move is in response to increased price volatility within the Asia-Pacific region. Asia is a key market, consuming approximately 50 percent of… Read More
