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
The Company of Biologists to preserve e-journals in the CLOCKSS Archive - September 20, 2011
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with The Company of Biologists to preserve their 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, The Company of Biologists has committed to… Read More
Ithaka S+R announces Research Support Services for Scholars programme - September 19, 2011
Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research arm of Ithaka, has announced a new programme, Research Support Services for Scholars. This programme will comprise a series of discipline-specific research projects aimed to provide critically needed research about the evolving behaviour and needs of scholars to the information… Read More
APA releases new repository for Psychological tests and measures - September 14, 2011
The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced the release of its new database, PsycTESTS. This new resource joins APA's suite of renowned research databases, providing a simple yet comprehensive solution for libraries and their patrons looking for access to test content. PsycTESTS will be updated monthly… Read More
OCLC and HathiTrust in deal to integrate HathiTrust full-text index into OCLC services - September 8, 2011
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has signed an agreement with HathiTrust to integrate the HathiTrust full-text index into OCLC services, enabling member libraries and their users to more easily discover resources from this digital collection through WorldCat. Under this new agreement,… Read More
