CLOCKSS formalises its Succession Plan to ensure perpetual preservation - November 5, 2018
CLOCKSS has announced that it has formalised its Succession Plan to ensure the enduring survival of the scholarly content it preserves. Four of CLOCKSS's twelve library nodes have agreed to continue to preserve the digital content that is preserved in CLOCKSS, if the organisation were… Read More
Cabells surpasses 10,000 journals indexed on Journal Blacklist - November 2, 2018
Cabells has surpassed the 10,000 journal mark for its Journal Blacklist, a searchable database of predatory journals identified by multiple breaches of 65 different criteria. Launched in June 2017, Cabells' Journal Blacklist claims to be the only database available to scholars… Read More
European Cardiology Review accepted for indexing on PubMed - October 30, 2018
Radcliffe Cardiology has confirmed that the European Cardiology Review (ECR) has been accepted for indexing on PubMed Central and PubMed. Published under Radcliffe Cardiology's ownership, all ECR articles starting from the first issue in July 2014 will now be published online in full on PubMed… Read More
University Libraries at the University of Nevada join HathiTrust - October 2, 2018
University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Reno has become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. The mission of HathiTrust is… Read More
RMIT University selects Ex Libris Rosetta for preserving and providing access to digital resources - September 6, 2018
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that RMIT University has chosen the Ex Libris Rosetta™ digital asset management and preservation solution to handle RMIT's digital resources more effectively. Few years ago, the RMIT university library initiated a program to digitise items from many university… Read More
Polish Society of Orthopaedic and Traumatology to preserve OA e-journals with Portico - August 31, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that the Polish Society of Orthopaedic and Traumatology is preserving Open Access e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Established in November of 1928, the journal, Polish Society of Orthopaedic and… Read More
Portico to preserve The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society - August 27, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society is being preserved with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Established in 1844, the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society is one… Read More
Digital Science integrates over 1.4 M patents from Russia into Dimensions platform - August 21, 2018
Research technology company Digital Science has integrated over 1.4 million patents from Russia into its Dimensions platform, which provides information on scholarly research activity worldwide. The only research insights platform to consistently link Russian patent information to publications from universities and research institutes globally, Dimensions… Read More
Universities from the United States dominate ARWU 2018 Top 500 list - August 15, 2018
The 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has been released by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2003, every year ARWU has been presenting the world’s Top 500 universities based on Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index data from Clarivate Analytics, as well as data… Read More
Portico and the National Library of the Netherlands partner to place archive replica at the National Library of the Netherlands - August 15, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico and the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek or KB) have partnered to establish an online replica of the Portico archive that will be hosted by the KB. Portico and the KB have a long history of collaboration; for more… Read More
