ALPSP to preserve with CLOCKSS Archive - November 19, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced a partnership with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), an international association for scholarly and professional publishers. Under the deal, CLOCKSS will preserve the Association's ejournals and ebooks in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive… Read More
National Library of Medicine launches Web content collecting initiative - November 9, 2012
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a Web content collecting initiative. The Library is selecting Web content as part of its mission to collect, preserve, and make accessible the scholarly biomedical literature as well as… Read More
ProQuest project with TAMU Scholars to train OCR tech to read early modern fonts - November 7, 2012
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has participated in a project that is expected to vastly accelerate research of 15th through 17th Century cultural history. The company will provide access to page images from the veritable Early English Books Online and newcomer Early European Books… Read More
Journals of Society of Antiquaries of London fully digitised by Cambridge Journals - November 2, 2012
Cambridge University Press and the Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) have announced the completion of the online archives of Archaeologia, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Antiquaries Journal. Collectively they comprise the journal archives of SAL and span 242 years, encompassing… Read More
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
