SPIE partners with CLOCKSS to preserve digital library content - January 20, 2012
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced a partnership with the CLOCKSS Archive to preserve the content of the SPIE Digital Library, a collection of optics and photonics literature, in the CLOCKSS dark archive. By archiving with CLOCKSS, SPIE has committed to… Read More
Libertas Academica to preserve e-journals with CLOCKSS Archive - January 13, 2012
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that it has partnered with STM publisher Libertas Academica to preserve the latter's e-journals in CLOCKSS' geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to be… Read More
Academics in Russia gain access to the Science Classic digital archive - December 23, 2011
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced that the Russian Ministry of Education and Science has selected Science Classic, the digital archives of Science (1880–1996), as the first acquisition in a major project to provide national access to scientific archives. Russian students,… Read More
SIAM to preserve e-journals and e-books in the CLOCKSS Archive - December 21, 2011
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to preserve their eJournals and eBooks in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. In addition, SIAM has been… Read More
German National Library of Science and Technology selects Ex Libris’ Rosetta digital preservation system - December 8, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover has selected Rosetta for its digital collections. The library will lead the digital preservation programme for the three member libraries of the Leibniz Library… Read More
Portico in deal with Cambridge University Press to preserve Cambridge Books Online content - December 7, 2011
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that Cambridge University Press will preserve its Cambridge Books Online content with Portico. Through this agreement, Cambridge extends its relationship with Portico, which began in 2006 with the publisher's commitment to deposit its entire list of e-journals… Read More
Future Science Group titles selected for coverage by MEDLINE - December 5, 2011
Publisher Future Science Group (FSG) has announced that two of its key titles have been selected for coverage by MEDLINE. Maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is a premier bibliographic database containing approximately 13 million references… Read More
Association of Research Libraries to preserve e-journals and e-books in the CLOCKSS Archive - November 30, 2011
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the CLOCKSS Archive have partnered to preserve ARL's e-journals and e-books 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, the ARL has… Read More
JISC, RCUK to build robust repository infrastructure for the future - November 25, 2011
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Research Councils UK (RCUK) are working together to build a robust repository infrastructure for the future. Tracking the UK's research outputs is now expected to become easier in the future. Over the coming months a piece of… Read More
Many publication professionals aware of selective data availability, says survey - November 25, 2011
Many medical publication professionals are aware of unpublished negative data from clinical trials and many believe obligations to make these data available should go beyond current legal requirements in the US and the EU. This is according to a new survey conducted during August by Ryan… Read More