National Library of Australia selects Tessella Safety Deposit Box - October 29, 2012
Digital preservation solutions provider Tessella, UK, has announced that it has won the tender process with the National Library of Australia for the Digital Library Infrastructure Redevelopment project. The National Library of Australia has a contract to purchase the Tessella Safety Deposit Box (SDB) as… Read More
University Libraries at Virginia Tech join HathiTrust - October 22, 2012
The University Libraries at Virginia Tech has joined the HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries that are collaborating to build a digital library initiative that preserves and provides access to the published record in digital form. As HathiTrust members, Virginia Tech students,… Read More
Portico and B-on Consortium announce agreement to expand digital preservation services to libraries in Portugal - October 19, 2012
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, and the B-on Consortium are pleased to announce an agreement to expand Portico's digital preservation services to research and academic libraries in Portugal. The B-on Consortium represents about 70 higher education institutions, research institutions, and other public bodies. … Read More
LCA welcomes court decision in favour of HathiTrust library using digitised works - October 15, 2012
The US' Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) has welcomed Judge Harold Baer's decision saying that the HathiTrust Digital Library's (HDL) use of digitised works is a fair use permitted under the Copyright Act. Baer's ruling not only allows HathiTrust to continue serving scholars and the print disabled,… Read More
BMC series biology journals urge authors to publish supporting data online - October 10, 2012
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that BMC series biology journals have joined BMC Research Notes in encouraging all authors of original research-based articles to publish supporting data permanently online. The authors have also been urged to include an 'Availability of supporting data' section in… Read More
University of Florida and the University of Miami libraries sign MoU to create a shared collection - October 8, 2012
The University of Florida and the University of Miami have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create the Collaborative Academic Library Collection. The Collaborative Academic Library Collection is a shared collection that will be housed in Gainesville for long-term preservation and retention of low use… Read More
BRILL becomes 100th publisher to participate in the CLOCKSS Archive - October 3, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that Netherlands-based academic publisher BRILL has become the 100th publisher to participate in the CLOCKSS Archive. BRILL will preserve their ejournals and ebooks in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries… Read More
CDL, partners launch free data management tool, DataUp - October 3, 2012
The University of California's Digital Library (CDL) and its partners have launched DataUp, a free data management tool. Researchers trying to meet their data management requirements from funders, journals and their own institutions can now reportedly use the DataUp Web application and a Microsoft Excel add-in… Read More
Scope announces the launch of AuthEntik, its Author Data Management solution - October 1, 2012
Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, has launched its author data management solution, AuthEntik™. The new solution seeks to address the author name ambiguity issue for publishers, university/academic institutions, grant funding agencies and publisher consortia. AuthEntik is a platform-enabled… Read More
Dell, University of Illinois create preservation archive with Fedora Repository Software - October 1, 2012
IT firm Dell, US, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a new digital archive for the latter's university system. The archive is said to simplify how the university manages digital assets, including rare books and faculty intellectual property output… Read More
