ProQuest’s Deep Indexing tech gets patent, to be more widely used in platform - April 27, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted it patent protection on the CSA Illustrata technology. ProQuest extracts and indexes data about graphic objects in journal literature to allow it to be searched as effectively as… Read More
US Supreme Court to hear case on limiting use of prescription records for marketing - April 26, 2011
The US Supreme Court is slated to hear a case that could put an electronic silence on the use of some pharmacy data to target physicians based on their identifiable prescription records. Data mining firms and their drug company clients reportedly use… Read More
ProQuest’s OA journal adds visualisation tools to capture and illuminate fast accumulation of data - April 25, 2011
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that its peer-reviewed, open access e-journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy (SSPP) is introducing new visualisation tools that make it easier for researchers to observe, compare, and manipulate the vast amounts of data being generated by the… Read More
ARL releases archive of webcast on digital curation for preservation by libraries - April 19, 2011
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), US, has released an archive of the webcast to complement the recently released report in the New Roles for New Times series, "Digital Curation for Preservation." The webcast, “New Roles for Research Libraries: Digital Curation for Preservation", featured a reactor… Read More
Pearson unveils version 5 of its EQUELLA 5 digital repository - April 7, 2011
Education and education technology services provider Pearson, US, has announced EQUELLA 5, the latest version of the company's digital repository that enables users to search, create and manage content online. EQUELLA provides one central solution to meet an institution's learning, research, media and library content… Read More
Center for Research Libraries certifies HathiTrust as trustworthy repository - April 5, 2011
HathiTrust, a partnership of major research institutions and libraries, has been certified as a trustworthy digital repository by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) through their rigorous Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC) assessment programme. Only a small number of digital repositories… Read More
Future Medicinal Chemistry accepted for coverage by MEDLINE - April 1, 2011
Publisher Future Science Ltd, UK, has announced that its journal Future Medicinal Chemistry has been selected for coverage by MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online). Maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is a premier bibliographic database containing about 13 million references… Read More
Future Medicine journal accepted for coverage by Chemical Abstracts - March 25, 2011
Future Medicine Ltd., part of Future Science Group, UK, has announced that its new journal Diabetes Management, launched in January 2011, has been selected for coverage by Chemical Abstracts. Chemical Abstracts, a division of the American Chemical Society, is an authoritative and comprehensive source for… Read More
Gale to preserve three more collections to the Portico archive - March 24, 2011
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced Gale will be preserving three additional digital historical collections with Portico. This follows the completed ingest of 10 Gale Digital Collections - including 19th Century U.S. Newspapers,… Read More
AIP Publishing re-launches Journal of Laser Applications on the Scitation hosting platform - March 22, 2011
AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has announced the re-launch of the Laser Institute of America's Journal of Laser Applications (JLA) on AIP's innovative Scitation hosting platform. As part of a new strategic partnership agreement between the Laser Institute of America… Read More
