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
BQFJ’s QScience.com to preserve journals with CLOCKSS Archive - June 2, 2011
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced that Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) is preserving their journals in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries across the world. By archiving with CLOCKSS, BQFJ seeks to ensure that its… Read More
GE Healthcare, Thomson Reuters develop new data and analytics solution - May 27, 2011
US-based GE Healthcare and Thomson Reuters have developed a new data and analytics solution. This is expected to help pharmaceutical firms and other healthcare organisations to conduct evidence-based research on data that enables them to better quantify the effectiveness of medical treatments… Read More
‘BMJ Open’ authors allowed to share original raw data - May 27, 2011
Medical information provider BMJ Group, UK, has announced that authors whose research is accepted for publication in one of its most recent online-only titles, BMJ Open, can now share the original raw data for their study. They can do so on or after publication. BMJ… Read More
BNA and MLA partner with Ex Libris to boost discoverability of content through Primo Central - May 25, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the United States Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) and the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) have joined the rapidly expanding group of information providers that enable the Primo Central Index of scholarly content to… Read More
