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
Four new publishers to participate in CLOCKSS Archive - September 28, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of four new publishers in its digital preservation archive. The publishers include the American Diabetes Association, the American Meteorological Society, Clay Minerals Society and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The American Diabetes Association seeks to prevent and cure… Read More
Portico partners with Project MUSE to preserve UPCC e-books - September 26, 2012
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, and Project MUSE have announced a partnership to secure the long-term preservation of e-books published online in MUSE through the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC). Working together, Project MUSE and Portico will ensure that the e-book offerings of the… Read More
Scientific American Supplement & Builders Archive Collection now available online - September 19, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced that the Scientific American Supplement & Builders Archive Collection is now available to institutional customers at www.nature.com/scientificamerican/archive. Readers can now explore floor plans of unique houses in addition to historic advancements in science, technology… Read More
Therapeutic Delivery journal accepted for coverage by MEDLINE - September 18, 2012
Future Science Ltd, part of Future Science Group, UK, has announced that Therapeutic Delivery has been accepted for coverage by MEDLINE. MEDLINE - the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online - is a premier bibliographic database containing about 13 million references to journal articles… Read More
National Library of China gains access to Cambridge Journals Digital Archive - September 17, 2012
The National Library of China (NLC) has gained access to the Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (CJDA) Complete Collection. The complete CJDA comprises 207 journals published from 1770 to 2010 and will provide substantial support to research institutes and universities throughout China. The broad subject areas… Read More
ALPSP, P-D-R and STM sign agreement on text and datamining clause - September 13, 2012
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the Pharma-Documentation-Ring (P-D-R) and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) have announced that they have signed an agreement to help pharmaceutical companies to better pursue research using text and… Read More
