Russia set to launch National Digital Library in 2015 - December 31, 2014
Russia recently unveiled new plans to launch a National Digital Library in 2015. According to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, the new initiative will transform local libraries into modern information and cultural hubs. Citizens' access to the service will be via the internet with a single electronic library ticket.… Read More
OpenAIRE2020 assures open access to H2020 results for all - December 29, 2014
Starting in January 2015, OpenAIRE2020 will monitor H2020 research outputs and help to spread H2020's scientific publications. Over the years, OpenAIRE has become an essential component of EU research. The collaborative network has identified over 100 000 FP7 publications and has made them openly accessible… Read More
Stockholm University partners with figshare on research data management - December 17, 2014
figshare, an online digital repository where researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos, has announced Stockholm University as the first Swedish customer of their research data management platform, figshare for institutions. The partnership expands figshare's global portfolio onto the… Read More
Retinal Cases & Brief Reports accepted for indexing by MEDLINE/PubMed and Scopus - December 15, 2014
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health has announced that Retinal Cases & Brief Reports, a publication dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed case reports and brief reports in the diagnosis and treatment of retinal and vitreous diseases, has been accepted for indexing by MEDLINE/PubMed and Scopus. All articles… Read More
Georgetown University Library joins HathiTrust - November 26, 2014
The Georgetown University Library has become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Membership in HathiTrust… Read More
Gale offers content for data mining and textual analysis purposes - November 18, 2014
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has announced that it will make available content from its Gale Digital Collections to academic researchers for data mining and textual analysis purposes. Data mining and textual analysis – the process by which text or datasets are crawled by software that… Read More
CrossRef and DataCite announce new initiative to accelerate adoption of DOIs for data publication and citation - November 11, 2014
CrossRef, a not-for-profit association of worldwide scholarly publishers, and DataCite, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to enabling people to find, share, use, and cite data, have announced a new initiative to accelerate the adoption of DOIs for data publication and citation. Data are essential building… Read More
IARS journal A&A Case Reports indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed - November 6, 2014
The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) is pleased to announce that its latest publication, A&A Case Reports, a peer-reviewed online journal that publishes informative clinical experiences, has been accepted for indexing by MEDLINE/PubMed. All articles back to Volume 1 Issue 1 will be loaded to PubMed,… Read More
Science Publications and Bentham Science Publishers to preserve e-journals with Portico - October 28, 2014
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that Science Publications will be preserving its 30 e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Science Publications is located in New York City and Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Science Publications publishes… Read More
Tomsk State University (Russia) meets multidisciplinary needs through ProQuest - September 19, 2014
ProQuest has announced that Tomsk State University in Russia has selected ProQuest SciTech Collection to offer full-text access with comprehensive discovery (through extensive abstracts in the fields of natural science, technology, and engineering). In addition, they also chose ProQuest Psychology Journals, providing access to full-text journals… Read More
