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
figshare and CLOCKSS announce preservation deal - April 13, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that it has partnered with figshare to preserve their data 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, figshare seeks to ensure that their… Read More
Chronopolis gets certification from CRL as trustworthy digital depository - April 10, 2012
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in the US has certified Chronopolis, a large-scale data preservation network, as a ‘trustworthy digital repository’ that meets accepted best practices in the management of digital repositories. Chronopolis is led by the UC San Diego Libraries and the San Diego… Read More
University of Delaware Library joins HathiTrust partnership - April 9, 2012
The University of Delaware Library has announced that it has become one of the latest members of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. The University of Delaware Library plans… Read More
Nature Publishing Group releases linked data platform - April 5, 2012
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has joined the linked data community by opening up access to its publication data via a linked data platform. NPG's Linked Data Platform is available at http://data.nature.com. The platform includes more than 20 million… Read More
NLM and Cengage Learning come together to complete mass-digitisation projects - April 2, 2012
The Archive and Modern Manuscripts Program of the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division recently worked with Cengage Learning to complete two full-collection digitisation projects for Archives Unbound, Cengage’s online digital archive and manuscripts resource. Cengage Learning is a provider of innovative teaching, learning… Read More
Students, faculty get free access to enterprise version of MarkLogic 5 server - March 28, 2012
Data analytics products firm MarkLogic Corporation, has announced the new free MarkLogic Academic License for students and educators. With this, students and faculty can download a free, enterprise version of MarkLogic 5 server for academic projects. By learning how to leverage technology for Big Data, it… Read More
