Springer’s interdisciplinary OA journal now indexed in Scopus and PubMed Central - March 20, 2013
STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that its interdisciplinary fully open access journal, SpringerPlus, is now indexed by PubMed Central and Scopus. Consequently, authors publishing with SpringerPlus will enjoy maximum exposure of their research work. The journal is part of SpringerOpen, the publisher's portfolio of… Read More
Four new publishers to participate in the CLOCKSS Digital Preservation Archive - March 20, 2013
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME); Cardiometry; Healthy Aging Research; and Stanford University Press. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a 'trigger event' and ensures an author's work will be… Read More
Journal of Healthcare Engineering accepted for inclusion into MEDLINE - March 19, 2013
Publisher Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd, UK, has announced that its title, the Journal of Healthcare Engineering has been accepted for inclusion into MEDLINE. MEDLINE - the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online - is a premier bibliographic database containing over 19 million references to… Read More
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences to be preserved with Portico - March 13, 2013
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) has entered into an agreement with non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico to preserve its journal. Through this agreement, PNAS seeks to ensure that its e-journal will be preserved and… Read More
Springer adds 28,000 German-language titles to Springer Book Archives - March 12, 2013
STM publisher Springer is providing online access to its historic German-language titles in addition to those in English, adding another 28,000 eBooks to the Springer Book Archives (SBA). These books are part of the SBA project in which books dating right back to 1842 – when… Read More
bepress to preserve Digital Commons ejournals with the CLOCKSS Archive - March 6, 2013
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that academic publisher Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) has entered into an agreement with CLOCKSS to preserve ejournals hosted on bepress Digital Commons publishing repositories. The journals are all participants in the new Digital Commons Publishing Services programme, which is designed to… Read More
RSC to host UK’s chemical database service and develop chemistry data repository - February 27, 2013
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has won the tender from EPSRC to operate the UK National Chemical Database Service from 2013 to 2017. The service, providing access to selected data sources to UK academic researchers, was launched on January 2, 2013 with an initial… Read More
RLUK and OCLC pilot new solution for electronic resource metadata management - February 21, 2013
Library information provider OCLC, US, is working with several members of RLUK (Research Libraries UK), to pilot a new service which brings improvements to the way libraries manage electronic resources and to users' access of these valuable collections. Powered by the WorldCat knowledge base, OCLC… Read More
Pensoft Publishers announces full integration of OA journals with CLOCKSS Archive - February 21, 2013
Academic publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced the full integration of its open access journals with the CLOCKSS Archive. The partnership reflects Pensoft's vision for the long-term availability of open access scholarly content for the global research community. The CLOCKSS Archive guarantees Pensoft's journals will remain intact,… Read More
Confederation of Open Access Repositories launches COAR Repository Observatory - February 14, 2013
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories has launched the new COAR Task Force 'Repository Observatory' (RO) on the COAR website. The aim of this project will be the identification of trends and future scenarios in the context of the use of repositories in research and… Read More
