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
Radiological Society of North America to preserve e-journals with Portico - March 6, 2015
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) will preserve its e-journals, Radiology and RadioGraphics with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. RSNA is based in Oak Brook, Illinois. The Radiological Society… Read More
IOP Publishing to preserves ebooks with CLOCKSS Archive - March 4, 2015
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with IOP Publishing to preserve their ebooks in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. IOP is committed to ensuring the preservation of its… Read More
Science Domain to preserve e-journals with Portico - February 24, 2015
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Science Domain will be preserving its e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Science Domain is based in West Bengal, India. Science Domain International (SDI) publishes high-quality, OPEN peer reviewed,… Read More
Portico and InTech announce preservation deal - February 23, 2015
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that InTech will be preserving its e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. InTech is based in Rijeka, Croatia. Since 2004, InTech collaborated with more than 87,000 authors from more than… Read More
Brill’s Turkish Historical Review now included in Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science - February 17, 2015
Academic publisher Brill has announced that its Turkish Historical Review is now included in Thomson Reuters Arts and Humanities Citation Index® and Current Contents®/Arts & Humanities. The journal is Brill’s 54th journal to be included for coverage in Thomson Reuters products and services. With this… Read More
ProQuest transforms research with digitization of rare, historical works from Bibliothèque nationale de France - February 13, 2015
Researchers can now explore early European history and culture as it happened with ProQuest's release of the first 2 million pages in its massive digitization project with Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris. When complete, the project will give researchers cover to cover access to… Read More
National Agricultural Library and ASERL partner to archive 875 research journals - February 13, 2015
The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has announced that the National Agricultural Library (NAL) has become ASERL's first-ever Program Affiliate. Through this agreement, NAL will partner with ASERL libraries to retain important agriculture-related print journals as part of ASERL's 'Scholars Trust' program, and NAL will… Read More
IOP Publishing journal 2D Materials now indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science - February 12, 2015
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced that 2D Materials (2DM) will now be indexed in Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, and content will appear within the next few weeks, beginning with Volume 1 (March 2014). 2DM will also be included in the 2016… Read More
