NTIS launches National Technical Reports Library Version 3.0 - May 16, 2012
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce has announced the launch of the next generation National Technical Reports Library Version 3.0, also known as NTRL V3.0. The NTRL V3.0 is now publicly available after two years of research and development.… Read More
Massachusetts Medical Society to re-launch Journal Watch on the HighWire Open Platform - May 15, 2012
The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine, has elected to refresh and re-launch Journal Watch on the HighWire Open Platform. Journal Watch has been a partner with HighWire since it first launched its online presence in 1995. The journal… Read More
ProQuest and partners to add new census content to HeritageQuest Online service - May 7, 2012
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that it is joining forces with Archives.com, FamilySearch International, findmypast.com and the National Association of Records and Archives in the 1940 US Census Community Project, a collaborative effort to index the contents of the newly released US… Read More
Portico and Association of University Programs in Health Administration announce preservation deal - May 4, 2012
The Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) has entered into an agreement with non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US. The deal is to preserve the AUPHA's e-journal, Journal of Health Administration Education (JHAE). Through this agreement with Portico, AUPHA ensures that its… Read More
University of Utah selects Ex Libris Rosetta for long-term digital preservation - May 1, 2012
Ex Libris Group, a US-based provider of library automation solutions, has announced that the University of Utah has opted for Ex Libris Rosetta to preserve the school's extensive cultural heritage collections. These include newspapers and other historical textual documents, photographs, rare books, oral history interviews (including… Read More
Indiana University selected as a partner institution in new data curation fellowship programme - April 26, 2012
Researchers are creating and using scientific data at unprecedented levels, underscoring the need for curators, or caretakers, to ensure that this massive amount of vital information is being maintained for important research. To help meet this need, Indiana University, through a joint effort between its Data… Read More
FIZ Karlsruhe’s Inorganic Crystal Structure Database expands offer of evaluated records - April 25, 2012
The Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), which claims to be the world's largest database of fully determined inorganic crystal structures, now offers more than 150,000 evaluated records. The database is produced by FIZ Karlsruhe in Germany and the National Institute for Standards and Technology in the… Read More
Official journal of the American Urogynecologic Society selected for indexing in MEDLINE - April 25, 2012
Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery (FPMRS), the official journal of the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS), has been selected for indexing in MEDLINE, the US National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters… Read More
CABI re-index improves searching and retrieval for database products - April 20, 2012
Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has announced that more than 9 million records on CAB Direct have been re-indexed to bring them into line with the controlled vocabulary of the updated 2011 CAB Thesaurus. This has standardised indexing and searching across all database records from 1910… Read More
Pensoft Publishers to preserve e-journals in CLOCKSS Archive - April 19, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with Pensoft Publishers to preserve its e-journals in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, Pensoft seeks to ensure that an author's work will… Read More
