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Many medical publication professionals are aware of unpublished negative data from clinical trials and many believe obligations to make these data available should go beyond current legal requirements in the US and the EU.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
JISC unveils community-owned content service for higher education institutions - November 24, 2011
JISC Collections, the membership organisation that supports the provision of digital content for education and research in the UK, is formally launching a new service to consolidate and host a broad range of content. This includes journal archives, historic books and multimedia items. The JISC eCollections… Read More
National Archives publishes National Registry of Controlled Unclassified Information - November 15, 2011
The US' National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been designated as the Executive Agent to implement the Executive Order 13556, signed by President Obama, and oversee agency actions to ensure compliance with this order. Earlier this month, as required by this Executive Order, the… Read More
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in deal with Portico to preserve e-journals - November 3, 2011
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter’s e-journals. NCTM is a public voice of mathematics education supporting teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of… Read More
Cengage Learning announces international advisory board for Nineteenth Century Collections Online - November 3, 2011
Teaching, learning and research solutions provider Cengage Learning, US, has announced the international advisory board for Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a new global digitisation and publishing programme that brings together rare nineteenth century primary source content from around the world. The archive will include content… Read More
Elsevier announces availability of Urban and Fischer Journal Archives on SciVerse ScienceDirect - November 2, 2011
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the availability of Elsevier Urban & Fischer Journal Archives, three new backfile collections in the life and health sciences, on SciVerse ScienceDirect. The new backfiles, published in English under the German imprint Urban & Fischer, contain journals concerning immunology and… Read More
Scientific American archive now available on nature.com - November 2, 2011
Science magazine Scientific American has announced that its complete archive, back to volume 1, issue 1, is now available on nature.com. To celebrate the completion of the Scientific American archive on nature.com, the 1845-1909 archive collection will be free to all to access from November 1-30,… Read More
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
