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
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
