Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box to manage Wellcome Trust’s digitised and born-digital assets - May 12, 2011
Technology and consulting services provider Tessella, UK, has announced that it has been selected by the Wellcome Trust to deliver a Digital Asset Management (DAM) using the former's Safety Deposit Box (SDB), to provide an essential component system of the developing Wellcome Digital Library. The… Read More
Scientific American archive collection from 1910-1947 now available on nature.com - May 9, 2011
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, is offering institutional customers the latest Scientific American archive collection for the years January 1910 - December 1947 on nature.com at www.nature.com/scientificamerican/archive. The collection brings together 38 years of historic advancements in science, technology… Read More
Portico provides access to Journal of Pharmacy Teaching content - May 4, 2011
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that participants in the Portico E-Journal Preservation Service will now have access to 14 volumes of Journal of Pharmacy Teaching. The title was formerly published by Informa Healthcare and ceased publication in 2008. Journal of Pharmacy… Read More
eHealthObjects selects Elsevier/Gold Standard drug database for its HIE, EHR and CDM products - May 3, 2011
Drug database provider Elsevier/Gold Standard, US, has announced that eHealthObjects, an innovative healthcare solutions company, has chosen Alchemy as its drug database. eHealthObjects specialises in delivering healthcare technology products, solutions and platforms that can seamlessly be integrated with other systems. Alchemy is a complete drug… Read More
mBio selected for indexing in MEDLINE - May 3, 2011
The American Society for Microbiology has announced that the online-only, open-access microbiology journal mBio has been selected by the National Library of Medicine to be indexed in MEDLINE. MEDLINE is one of the largest component of PubMed, the freely accessible online… Read More
Archives New Zealand opts for Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system - May 3, 2011
Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that Archives New Zealand (Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga) has selected the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation solution to preserve, manage and provide access to the diverse, rapidly growing digital collections stored by Archives New… Read More
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
