CARL and OCUL in deal to enhance data management and digital preservation in Canada - May 5, 2017
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) have signed an agreement to work together to identify and advance regional and national issues relating to the data discovery, management and digital preservation needs of the… Read More
Five additional publishers working with CLOCKSS to preserve publications for future generations - April 26, 2017
CLOCKSS, a not-for-profit joint venture between the world's leading academic publishers and research libraries, has announced that five additional publishers are working with the archive to preserve their publications for future generations of researchers. CLOCKSS, the decentralized preservation archive that ensures that the digital assets… Read More
Synchro Publishing and Ergon Creación in deal with Portico to preserve e-journals - April 18, 2017
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Synchro Publishing will preserve e-journals with Portico, ensuring that they will be secure and available into the future. Synchro is a domain of emerging researchers who aspire to get their papers published. The journals published by Synchro enclose… Read More
Lakehead University Library and Scholars Portal collaborate on hosted digital preservation pilot - April 7, 2017
Scholars Portal and Lakehead University Library have announced their collaboration on the development of Permafrost, a new preservation service to help protect the unique digital collections held by Ontario's university libraries and archives. Permafrost is a proposed cloud-hosted digital preservation service for members of the Read More
Clarivate Analytics announces expansion of Emerging Sources Citation Index - April 4, 2017
Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, has announced the expansion of its Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) from 5,000 journal titles to over 7,500 as well as the release of a 10-year archive for this index later this year. The… Read More
University of Manchester selects ProQuest to digitise theses - March 30, 2017
The University of Manchester has signed a two-year Digital Archiving and Access Program (DAAP) agreement with ProQuest to preserve and promote its world-class research. In the first year alone, ProQuest will digitise thousands of theses, improving worldwide access and preserving them for generations of researchers. … Read More
Knowledge E materials science conference indexed in Web of Science - March 20, 2017
Information resources and software solutions provider Knowledge E has announced its first conference proceedings indexed in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (formerly Thomson Reuters and ISI). The IV Sino-Russian ASRTU Symposium on Advanced Materials and Processing Technology was celebrated at Ural Federal University, Russia between… Read More
MDPI journal Cancers accepted for Coverage in Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) - March 20, 2017
Academic open-access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has announced that Cancers, an international, peer-reviewed open access journal on oncology, has been accepted for indexing in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), as well as BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts. The coverage starts with volume 6… Read More
State Library Victoria selects Ex Libris Rosetta for digital asset management, collection, and preservation - February 6, 2017
Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that State Library Victoria has chosen the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system to manage its digital resources and sustain them in perpetuity. Rosetta will be replacing the library's DigiTool® digital asset management system. State Library Victoria sought… Read More
Four databases from Wanfang Data now Indexed in EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM - January 24, 2017
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Wanfang Data have announced a new agreement to give researchers access to scholarly information from China through EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Metadata from four Chinese databases that contain more than 35 million records of journal articles, dissertations… Read More
