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
Inspec adds over 50 key journals from Springer - August 14, 2018
More than 50 leading journals from Springer, including Nature, Nature Physics and the Journal of Material Science have been added to Inspec, the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) globally renowned abstract and indexing database for physics, electronics, computing and engineering. … Read More
J-STAGE to preserve e-content with Portico - August 1, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that J-STAGE will preserve its full digital library with Portico, ensuring that important scholarly resources published in Japan will remain available to researchers in perpetuity. Founded in 1999, J-STAGE is an electronic journal platform developed and managed by the… Read More
Portico explores digital preservation landscape in UKSG Insights - July 19, 2018
There has been tremendous growth in the amount of digital content created by libraries, publishers, cultural institutions and the general public. While there are great benefits to having content available in digital form, digital objects can be extremely short-lived unless proper attention is paid to preservation. The rise of… Read More
Preservica, Arkivum, the Open Preservation Foundation and Artefactual collaborate on new Jisc initiative - June 28, 2018
In a new initiative supported by Jisc, Preservica, Arkivum, the Open Preservation Foundation and Artefactual will work together to deliver a proof-of-concept Preservation Action Registry (PAR) to exchange preservation action best practice within the preservation community and between different preservation systems. This exchange of preservation knowledge… Read More
Frontline Medical Communications’ Federal Practitioner now included in PubMed Central - June 26, 2018
Frontline Medical Communications (FMC), publishers of Federal Practitioner®, part of the MDedgeTM Network, has announced that its full-text peer-reviewed articles, editorials, columns and special issues content, as of January 2015, are available through the National Library of Medicine (NLM) PubMed Central® (PMC)… Read More
CLOCKSS announces preservation of Crossref metadata - June 13, 2018
The CLOCKSS Archive, the long-term preservation service for scholarly content, has announced that the CLOCKSS system will preserve all Crossref metadata. The Crossref system contains bibliographic information for 97 million scholarly articles and book content, and growing by approximately 2 million each year. Crossref is… Read More
Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine to preserve OA e-journals with Portico - June 11, 2018
Digital preservation service Portico has announced that the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine (JSNM) will preserve their Open Access e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future. Established in 1964, the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine has aided in… Read More
ScienceOpen indexes articles from two ARPHA-hosted journals - May 30, 2018
Two scholarly journals published on ARPHA - Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO Journal) and Check List - now have their articles freely available via the community-focused search and discovery platform ScienceOpen. The new trial between the two high-tech innovators and Open… Read More
