Data Conversion Laboratory announces start of second phase of Scopus Cited References Expansion Program - July 21, 2015
Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), an industry leader in organizing and converting content into digital formats, has announced the start of the second phase of the Scopus Cited References Expansion Program. To date, DCL has converted and enriched 3.7 million Elsevier, American Physical Society (APS) and Springer… Read More
Journal of Medical Imaging, Neurophotonics now included in PubMed Central - July 14, 2015
Not for-profit publisher SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced that two more journals published by SPIE are now included in PubMed Central, a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature run by the U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH)… Read More
High ranking OA publications in OpenAIRE, Russia tops the list - July 7, 2015
The scientific open access library CyberLeninka recently provided OpenAIRE with their data to about half a million articles stored in its database. According to updated data storage, Russia entered the top five European countries by the number of articles published in open access. OpenAIRE indexed… Read More
Emerald Group Publishing and Portico extend relationship to preserve e-books - July 6, 2015
Academic publisher Emerald Group Publishing is extending its relationship with Portico to preserve its e-books in the Portico archive. With this move, Emerald seeks to ensure that their e-book content will be secure and available into the future. Established in 1967,… Read More
American Psychological Association to index scholarly journal and book collections with ReadCube’s Discover service - June 26, 2015
The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced a partnership with publishing software company ReadCube to index their scholarly journal and book collections with ReadCube's Discover service. All 110 journals comprising the PsycARTICLES database, including several of the most highly cited and leading journals in psychology, along… Read More
Primo Central Index to cover Wanfang Data Content in Chinese - June 24, 2015
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris® Group has announced that the metadata of e-journals, dissertations, conference papers, and gazetteers hosted by Wanfang Data will be indexed in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic resources. As a result, this extensive content from Wanfang Data… Read More
Gale indexes millions of pages of content with Google and library discovery services for easier access and improved researcher workflow - June 23, 2015
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is supporting discovery by working with Google to index millions of documents in Google Scholar, and expanding the amount of content indexed by major library discovery services. In addition, Gale is promoting transparency in discovery through compliance with industry information… Read More
Portico tackles the ‘long tail,’ focuses on small publishers - June 23, 2015
Digital preservation specialist Portico has grown to include more than 300 participating publishers—representing more than 2,000 societies and associations—and more than half are small publishers. The recent increase in signings of 'small' publishers that produce ten titles or fewer is a result of community feedback. … Read More
National Library of the Netherlands and Portico partnership at the forefront of digital preservation and international collaboration - May 29, 2015
The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and Portico have announced a new partnership that will support the preservation of e-journals through the KB’s International e-Depot program and take advantage of Portico’s extensive preservation infrastructure and expertise. The KB’s International e-Depot program focuses on the… Read More
ProQuest partners with the National Library of Scotland to digitise unique government documents - May 15, 2015
ProQuest has partnered with the National Library of Scotland to create the very first digitised collection of 19th Century House of Lords Parliamentary Papers, providing online access to previously unseen and valuable historical documents. Launching in late 2015, this unique project will allow those who… Read More
