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
UConn Libraries join HathiTrust Digital Library - September 7, 2011
The UConn Libraries have become the latest member of HathiTrust Digital Library, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating to compile a massive digital library of published scholarship. HathiTrust includes material from the Google Books Library Project, an effort by Google to scan… Read More
JISC, RIN report on role of data centres in developing culture of data sharing among researchers - September 6, 2011
A new study by JISC and the Research Information Network (RIN) has found that data centres have been instrumental in developing a culture of data sharing among researchers. The report has been released ahead of JISC's 'Research Integrity Conference,' scheduled for September 13, 2011. The conference… Read More
EFPIA expresses support for full transparency of clinical data - September 6, 2011
The European Medicines Agency has carried out a consultation on increased transparency and access to information included in companies' applications for marketing authorisation. In its response submitted recently, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) expressed support for the release… Read More
UK’s National Archives releases application interface for 11 million records - September 5, 2011
The National Archives, the official archive of the UK government, has reportedly made details of 11 million records available through an application programming interface (API) it published as part of an ongoing programme to get more official records online. The API… Read More
