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
Portico to preserve Digital Commons e-journals for bepress - February 7, 2013
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that bepress has entered into an agreement with Portico to preserve e-journals hosted on bepress Digital Commons publishing repositories. The journals are all participants in the new Digital Commons Publishing Services programme, which is designed to give… Read More
Serials Solutions to index SciELO e-book collection in Summon discovery service - February 1, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, has announced that it is working with Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) to index its e-book collection in the Summon discovery service. SciELO's objective is to maximize the use, visibility, accessibility and impact of the work of Latin American scholars. With… Read More
More than 90 international university presses now preserving e-books with Portico - January 28, 2013
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it is now preserving e-books from more than 90 university presses in 6 countries. This includes Cambridge University Press and university press e-books hosted by JSTOR (Books at JSTOR), Project Muse (UPCC Collections), and Oxford University… Read More
NIH to embed ORCID identifiers in grant application workflows - January 17, 2013
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will join Wellcome Trust in working to embed ORCID identifiers in grant application workflows. ORCID undertakes to provide funders a means to better track research and understand the impact of funding while reducing the burden… Read More
F1000Research articles to be listed in PubMed and deposited in PubMed Central - January 16, 2013
F1000Research, the first Open Science publisher, has announced that articles published in its innovative publishing system will be listed in PubMed, which claims to be the largest and most-used biomedical literature database. F1000Research is F1000’s new open access publishing program that offers immediate publication followed… Read More
Seven new publishers to participate in CLOCKSS Archive - January 8, 2013
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of seven new publishers in its digital preservation archive. These include: Seismological Society of America, Mineralogical Society of America, Geological Society of London, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa (CFUL), Botanical Society of America, Social Behavior and Personality… Read More
