Three new publishers participate in the CLOCKSS digital preservation archive - July 15, 2013
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of the Philosophy Documentation Center; Reveal Digital; and the Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care. CLOCKSS will preserve their collections in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around… Read More
Karo Bio opts for Reaxys and Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry to support chemists in research and development - July 11, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Karo Bio, a developer of innovative drugs for large medical needs, has started to use Reaxys and Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry. Karo Bio has chosen the solutions to support its chemists in their research and development objectives, ensuring they have… Read More
Elsevier articles on ScienceDirect and datasets in the ORNL DAAC data repository now reciprocally linked - July 9, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier has announced its implementation of reciprocal linking between Earth Science content on ScienceDirect and related data sets of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Tennessee (ORNL). The ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC), which is funded by the National Aeronautics… Read More
RSC Publishing selects TSO’s OpenUp platform to publish bibliographic Linked Open Data - July 9, 2013
The Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing has chosen TSO, part of the Williams Lea group, and their OpenUp platform to publish bibliographic Linked Open Data. Building on and supporting complementary platforms and projects such as ChemSpider, OpenPhacts and Prospect, the RSC will open up its… Read More
Blackboard launches xpLor, a shared content repository that supports multiple LMS platforms - June 25, 2013
Enterprise technology and innovative solutions provider Blackboard Inc., US, has announced the release of xpLor, a content platform that gives educators unprecedented ability to create, discover and share rich course materials across systems and institutions. xpLor claims to be the industry's first cloud-based learning object repository… Read More
The British Library and Portico partner to preserve thousands of e-journals for future generations - June 20, 2013
The British Library and digital preservation specialist Portico have announced that they will be working together to ensure that thousands of electronic journal titles will be collected, preserved and made available to current and future generations of researchers. The partnership will help the British Library… Read More
New laboratory informatics system revolutionises experimentation management through scientific big data mining - June 14, 2013
Accelrys, Inc., a US-based provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, has announced the Accelrys Experiment Knowledge Base (EKB), an industry-first laboratory informatics system that raises the bar for experimentation management and enables organisations to transform mass amounts of scientific data into knowledge essential for faster,… Read More
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute unveils international initiative to promote sharing of standardised genetic and clinical data - June 11, 2013
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute recently unveiled an international initiative to promote the sharing of standardised genetic and clinical data. More than 60 leading healthcare, research and disease advocacy organisations from across the world are joining together to form an international alliance dedicated to enabling secure… Read More
ACSESS, Inc. to preserves with CLOCKSS Archive - May 23, 2013
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that ACSESS, Inc. is participating in the archive to preserve their full-text Digital Library in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to… Read More
De Gruyter selects CLOCKSS for long-term digital archiving of databases and e-books - May 9, 2013
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, has announced that it is now archiving its 36 databases and 55 eBookPLUS at the CLOCKSS Archive. CLOCKSS is a US-based non-profit whose mission is to provide for the long-term digital archiving of academic publications. Partnership with CLOCKSS ensures that… Read More
