Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology content now available via the Portico archive - March 15, 2012
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that participants in the Portico E-Journal Preservation Service will have access to 10 volumes of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology. The title was formerly published by Australian Academic Press and ceased publication in 2011.… Read More
Harvard Library to deposit about 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust - March 8, 2012
The Harvard Library has announced that it will deposit about 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for published materials. The move follows Harvard's first deposit of about 53,000 volumes in HathiTrust in 2011. The Harvard Library, founded in 1638, claims to… Read More
InTech publications accepted for inclusion in Inspec and Scopus - March 6, 2012
STM publisher InTech, Croatia, has announced the inclusion of 620 books in the Inspec database and the International Journal of Engineering Business Management entering the Scopus database. In 2011 alone, the number of downloaded book chapters and articles outperformed the number of any year between… Read More
Ex Libris Group integrates LOCKSS Program software with the SFX OpenURL link resolver - February 17, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced the integration of the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Program software with the SFX OpenURL link resolver. Based at Stanford University Libraries, the LOCKSS Program is an international community collaboration that archives copies of… Read More
Institution of Engineering and Technology and Whiting & Birch to preserve content with the CLOCKSS Archive - February 16, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of two new publishers - The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Whiting & Birch - in its Digital Preservation Archive. The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with the IET to preserve its entire digital range in CLOCKSS's… Read More
Brigham Young University selects Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system - February 15, 2012
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that Brigham Young University (BYU) has selected the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system. The first member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to adopt Rosetta, Brigham Young will implement Rosetta initially for the Harold… Read More
The AMA’s ‘Archives of Family Medicine’ and ‘JAMA Français’ now available via the CLOCKSS Archive - February 10, 2012
The American Medical Association's 'Archives of Family Medicine' and 'JAMA Français' are now available from the CLOCKSS Archive. The American Medical Association recently announced that the journals 'Archives of Family Medicine' and 'JAMA Français' are no longer available from their journal… Read More
Researchers agree on standard for data sharing across the world - January 30, 2012
Over 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organisations around the globe have agreed on a common standard that will make possible the consistent description of enormous and radically different databases compiled in fields ranging from genetics to stem cell science, to environmental studies. The collaborators were led in this effort… Read More
Washington University Libraries join HathiTrust partnership - January 26, 2012
Washington University Libraries has joined HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries to preserve and provide access to the published record in a digital form. The announcement was made by Shirley K. Baker, Washington University’s vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University… Read More
Touch Briefings’ journal European Infectious Disease accepted for indexing in Scopus and Embase - January 24, 2012
Touch Briefings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Touch Group plc, has announced that its clinical journal European Infectious Disease has been accepted for indexing in Scopus and Embase. Scopus and Embase aim to provide comprehensive, authoritative and reliable coverage of biomedical literature, enabling clinicians and… Read More
