National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases plan for public access to NOAA-funded research - April 13, 2015
In early April 2015, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released the 'NOAA Plan for Increasing Public Access to Research Results'. The plan details the extensive, long-term investments that NOAA has made in the preservation of and access to digital data and how the… Read More
Scientific Research Publishing chooses Portico for e-journal preservation - April 9, 2015
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) will preserve its e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. SCIRP is based in the US and China. SCIRP is one of the largest Open Access journal… Read More
CSurgeries to preserve e-journal with Portico - April 2, 2015
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that CSurgeries will be preserving its e-journal with Portico, ensuring that it will be secure and available into the future. CSurgeries is based in Wexford, Pennsylvania. CSurgeries is an online surgical video journal dedicated to creating a centralized source… Read More
Peer J and PeerJ Preprints to be preserved with Portico - March 26, 2015
PeerJ and PeerJ Preprints will be preserved with Portico through its E-Journal Preservation Service, ensuring that this content will be secure and available into the future. PeerJ is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal. It publishes research articles in the Biological and Medical Sciences, and… Read More
Universities showcase impact of global research studies in Online Database - March 25, 2015
Global technology company Digital Science, which serves the scientific and academic research community, has completed the collation of more than 6,500 case study documents into the REF Impact Case Study database. It is the first time universities have attempted to describe and quantify the far-reaching impact… Read More
IOP Publishing journals now indexed in ReadCube - March 25, 2015
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP) has announced an agreement with Boston-based publishing technology company ReadCube to increase the discoverability and enhance their articles within the ReadCube web, desktop and mobile environment. Thirty-four journal titles, including the Journal of Physics series, are now fully discoverable… Read More
Jisc invests in collaborative projects to improve research data management - March 25, 2015
Researchers from across the UK are set to benefit from the development of new services which look to overcome the biggest challenges facing the research community, through research data spring. Research data spring is an initiative to create innovative partnerships between researchers, librarians, publishers and… Read More
Cambridge University Press adopts OrgRef for improved data quality - March 20, 2015
Academic publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP) has adopted the OrgRef dataset to help clean and de-duplicate its customer data. OrgRef is a free and open dataset which has been created by DataSalon for the benefit of the scholarly publishing community. OrgRef shares structured information about… Read More
UC Shared Print Strategy and Operations Teams announce new service – Journal Archiving Campaigns to the RLFs - March 18, 2015
The UC Shared Print Strategy and Operations Teams have announced a new service - Journal Archiving Campaigns to the RLFs (JACS). Journal archiving campaigns provide a coordinated approach to selecting, depositing, consolidating and preserving print journal backfiles at the Regional Library Facilities (RLFs). The service consists of annual, coordinated… Read More
Springer starts pilot project on Linked Open Data - March 6, 2015
STM publisher Springer has now opened selected metadata from conference publications, heeding the European Commission's call for promoting open data. The term Linked Open Data (LOD) refers to structured, machine-readable data, which more and more researchers and librarians are now using in their work. Springer belongs… Read More
