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
National Library of Israel opts for Ex Libris’ Rosetta for digital preservation - January 3, 2013
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that the National Library of Israel (NLI) has adopted its Rosetta digital preservation solution. As part of the NLI's strategic renewal programme, Rosetta will manage and preserve its collections of e-books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, audio recordings, websites… Read More
European Commission launches open data portal in public beta - December 24, 2012
The European Commission has launched its open data portal, announced last year December, in public beta. While the site is already on-line, the EC has requested to not widely circulate the URL yet. The beta launch will be more widely announced in January 2013. At… Read More
Amazon Web Services unveils High Storage instances for data intensive applications - December 24, 2012
US-based Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced High Storage instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family optimised for applications requiring fast access to large amounts of data. These new instances provide customers with 35 EC2 Compute Units (ECUs)… Read More
Digital Science Press to preserve UroToday International Journal with Portico - December 12, 2012
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Digital Science Press to preserve the latter's UroToday International Journal. Through this agreement, Digital Science Press seeks to ensure that its e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. … Read More
Four new publishers to participate in CLOCKSS Archive - December 7, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of four new publishers in its digital preservation archive. These include: ALPSP, Rocky Mountain Geology, Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche Trento and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press (VGTU Press). ALPSP is the international organisation for non-profit publishers. It has a… Read More
American Chemical Society in deal with Portico to preserve e-books - December 3, 2012
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that American Chemical Society (ACS) has entered into an agreement with Portico to preserve its e-books. Through this agreement, ACS extends its relationship with Portico, which began in 2007 with the publisher's commitment to deposit its entire… Read More
