HathiTrust releases new bibliographic metadata management system – Zephir - November 11, 2013
HathiTrust has announced the release of a new, state-of-the-art bibliographic management system for its 11-million volume digital repository. The new system, called Zephir, is developed and managed by the California Digital Library, and represents the first distributed development of a major repository component outside the University… Read More
The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group preserves e-journals with Portico - October 28, 2013
The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group has entered into an agreement with Portico to preserve its e-journals. The Group is the scientific publishing arm of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Through this agreement, the Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group ensures that these e-journals will… Read More
ACS Publications announces large-scale digitisation and open availability of data coupled to ACS Legacy Archives Journals - October 25, 2013
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the completion of a comprehensive undertaking to digitally convert and conserve the Supporting Information for its broadly subscribed ACS Legacy Archives journals collection. This initiative was part of the Society's commitment to broaden the online… Read More
Sanofi to use QUOSA to support adverse event monitoring - October 23, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Sanofi, one of the world's leading pharmaceutical organisations, has implemented QUOSA's literature management tools to automate adverse event monitoring. QUOSA powers the retrieval, storage, tagging and annotation of relevant case reports, allowing for the creation of a centralised repository… Read More
Serials Solutions’ Summon Service to index PEP Web Archive - October 16, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, continues to expand its coverage by working with Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing to include PEP Web, a digital archive of classic psychoanalytic texts, in the Summon service. Acting on requests from clients in the UK, the full text of these important psychoanalytic… Read More
UNEP announces landmark initiative to digitise publications and official documents - October 14, 2013
The United Nation’s Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced that its Division of Communication and Public Information (DCPI) recently launched a trailblazing new project to digitise the organisation's books, reference materials and other publications. The initiative - among the first of its kind in the UN… Read More
Serials Solutions’ Summon Service to index content from three key international publishers - October 10, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair that it will work with three key international publishers - Minha Biblioteca, Universitetsforlaget AS and Boom uitgevers Den Haag - to index their content in the Summon discovery service. Researchers around the world will benefit… Read More
World Scientific Publishing to preserve e-books with Portico - October 9, 2013
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that World Scientific Publishing has entered into an agreement to preserve its e-books. World Scientific Publishing has preserved its e-journals with Portico since 2010. Portico is a digital preservation service for e-journals, e-books, and other scholarly e-content. The Portico… Read More
Royal Society of Chemistry announces new Chemical Sciences Repository - October 8, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a new subject-based repository that will make it easier for researchers to find and share relevant journal articles and data from a single point of access. The initial release will provide an article repository as a central… Read More
Two new publishers to participate in the CLOCKSS digital preservation archive - October 7, 2013
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of Museum Victoria and the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. CLOCKSS will preserve their collections in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action… Read More
