East View Information Services and CLOCKSS partner to preserve e-journals and e-Books - June 27, 2011
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with East View Information Services to preserve the latter'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, East View Information Services… Read More
University of Michigan Library to share HathiTrust orphan works digitally - June 24, 2011
The University of Michigan Library (U-M Library) users will soon gain access to digital versions of some of the thousands of orphan works held in common by the U-M Library and the HathiTrust Digital Library. Making these works available in HathiTrust will… Read More
Biologic Institute to preserve e-content with CLOCKSS Archive - June 24, 2011
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with that Biologic Institute to preserve the latter's e-content 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, Biologic Institute seeks to ensure the preservation… Read More
Future Science journal Clinical Investigation accepted for coverage by Chemical Abstracts - June 17, 2011
Future Science Ltd, part of Future Science Group, UK, has announced that its new journal Clinical Investigation, launched in January 2011, has been selected for coverage by Chemical Abstracts. Chemical Abstracts, a division of the American Chemical Society, is claimed to be an authoritative and… Read More
Penn State University Press partners with CLOCKSS to preserve e-journals and e-books - June 14, 2011
CLOCKSS, a not for profit joint venture between the world's leading scholarly publishers and research libraries, has announced a partnership with Penn State University Press. Under the deal, CLOCKSS will preserve the latter's e-journals and e-books in its geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive… Read More
Support for KBART increasing within knowledge community - June 14, 2011
The UKSG, an international organisation that seeks to connect the knowledge community, and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced that eight more publishers will supply metadata that conforms to the recommended practice, KBART: Knowledge Bases And Related Tools (NISO RP-9-2010).… Read More
European project Wf4Ever uses social networking principle in scientific research - June 8, 2011
Researchers from the Ontological Engineering Group (OEG) at Spain's Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Facultad de Informática are participating, together with other Spanish, English, Polish and Dutch experts, in the European Wf4Ever project. The project seeks to apply the social networking principle to… Read More
ETH Zurich selects Ex Libris’ Rosetta digital preservation system - June 7, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that ETH-Bibliothek, the library of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), has selected the Rosetta digital preservation system to preserve, manage, and provide access to the Institute's digital collections in perpetuity. Based… Read More
Boston University Libraries join HathiTrust - June 6, 2011
Boston University Libraries has become the latest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. The Libraries plan to contribute public… Read More
Geological Society of America and CLOCKSS announce archiving deal - June 3, 2011
The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with the Geological Society of America (GSA) to preserve their 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… Read More
