US’ Library of Congress moots bibliographic framework for Digital Age - November 1, 2011
The US' Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control, as it examined technology for the future, wrote that the Library of Congress community's data carrier, MARC, is 'based on forty-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.' … Read More
Touch Briefings’ clinical journal – European Urological Review – accepted for indexing in Scopus - October 31, 2011
Touch Briefings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Touch Group plc, has announced that its clinical journal European Urological Review has been accepted for indexing in Scopus. Scopus aims to provide comprehensive, authoritative and reliable coverage of biomedical literature, enabling clinicians and medical researchers to capture… Read More
Sigma Theta Tau International launches new library repository - October 28, 2011
Sigma Theta Tau International, the organisation which seeks to offer all nurses worldwide online access to nursing information that can be easily utilised and shared, has announced the launch of its new library repository. Built in conjunction with BioMed Central's Open Repository,… Read More
Pearson releases latest version of EQUELLA digital repository - October 19, 2011
Education services provider Pearson, US, has released EQUELLA 5.1, the latest version of the digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online. The announcement was made at EDUCAUSE 2011, the annual conference of the world's leaders in education technology. EQUELLA provides… Read More
University of Miami Libraries join HathiTrust - October 17, 2011
The University of Miami has become the latest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. According to William Walker, Dean and University… Read More
Springer launches digitisation project, Springer Book Archives - October 7, 2011
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media has started its extensive digitisation project, Springer Book Archives (SBA). The SBA initiative will include nearly all books that have been published since the 1840s. Springer expects that the book archives will contain around 65,000 titles. Titles include academically and historically… Read More
NTIS and Information International Associates form joint venture to develop IR service for federal agencies - October 6, 2011
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the US Department of Commerce and Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa) recently formed a Joint Venture (JV) to develop an Institutional Repository (IR) Service for federal agencies. Institutional Repositories are collections of agency scientific and technical information documents and… Read More
Touch Briefings journals accepted for indexing in Scopus and Embase - September 29, 2011
Touch Briefings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Touch Group plc, has announced that eight of its clinical journals have been accepted for indexing in Scopus and Embase. These include European Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, US Cardiology, European Endocrinology, US Endocrinology, European Gastroenterology & Hepatology Review, European Musculoskeletal… Read More
National Agricultural Library selects TEMIS to automate indexing process - September 28, 2011
Text analytics solutions provider TEMIS, US, has announced that it was awarded a major contract by the National Agricultural Library (NAL), one of the world's largest agricultural information collections, part of the United States Department of Agriculture. Under the deal, NAL will use Luxid for Content… Read More
DOE-funded research now accessible via DataCite - September 21, 2011
Researchers funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) can now make their scientific research data easier to cite and easier to find from worldwide sources. The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is now registering publicly available scientific research datasets created by DOE-funded… Read More
