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
Gale to preserve two more collections with Portico - September 11, 2012
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced the addition of two Gale Digital Collections – Nineteenth Century Collections Online and National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 to Portico’s D-Collections Service. Portico has already preserved more than 1,380,000 objects and 83,000,000 files from 14 Gale Collections… Read More
Western Regional Storage Trust completes first round of print journal archiving - August 31, 2012
The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), a partnership to create a distributed retrospective print journal repository in western US, has announced that it has completed its first round of print journal archiving. This has been accomplished under a three-year programme jointly funded by WEST members and… Read More
arXiv adopts new business model, gets grant from Simons Foundation - August 29, 2012
arXiv, a US-based free repository that has reportedly revolutionised the way scientists share information, has announced that it is adopting a new governance and business model. An operating grant from the Simons Foundation, Cornell University Library has helped arXiv take a major… Read More
‘American Journal of Botany’ article describes ontologies for plants data - August 21, 2012
The American Journal of Botany has, in this month's issue, published an article by Ramona Walls (of New York Botanical Garden) and colleagues. The article describes how scientists build ontologies such as the Plant Ontology (PO) and how these tools can transform plant science by facilitating… Read More
CLOCKSS Archive announces participation of five new publishers in its digital preservation archive - August 16, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of five new publishers in its digital preservation archive. The publishers are: Duke University Press, NZCER Press, New Prairie Press, Mathematical Sciences Publishers and Copernicus Publications. Duke University Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences and… Read More
Asian Journal of Psychiatry accepted for indexing in MEDLINE - August 15, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Asian Journal of Psychiatry, the official scientific journal of the Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations, has been accepted for indexing in Medline and will soon be accessible via PubMed. Indexing through the US National Library of Medicine's (NLM)… Read More
