CLOCKSS and Springer announce preservation agreement - February 3, 2011
CLOCKSS, a not for profit joint venture between the world's leading scholarly publishers and research libraries, has announced a partnership with STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media. The deal is to preserve over 32,000 e-books in CLOCKSS's geographically and geopolitically distributed network of… Read More
EACTS and Portico sign agreement to preserve multimedia e-journal - January 26, 2011
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter’s e-journal Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery. The Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery is an online manual of cardiovascular and… Read More
Three more SAGE journals accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE - January 24, 2011
Academic publisher SAGE has announced that a further three of its scientific journals collection have been selected for inclusion in MEDLINE. The journals are: Journal of Pharmacy Practice; Food Science and Technology International; and the Journal of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers. MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis… Read More
Emerald journals now available for preservation in Global LOCKSS Network - January 20, 2011
The LOCKSS Program, a unit of the Stanford University Libraries, has announced that journal titles from academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, are now available for preservation in the Global LOCKSS Network. Emerald has reportedly committed more… Read More
ABM joining efforts to support US’ First Amendment right to gather and sell data - December 17, 2010
American Business Media (ABM), a grouping of business information companies, has reportedly joined with other publishing and data-collection associations and companies in supporting the US' First Amendment right to gather, market and sell data. This follows a reported split of opinion that has developed between two… Read More
NDIIPP partner digital collections now viewable on website - December 14, 2010
The Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) has introduced a new section in its website to provide a high level view of the collections that partners are preserving worldwide. Users of 'Explore Partner Collections' will now see a map plotting the… Read More
New application provides scientists easy access to key government data - December 13, 2010
Computer scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will work with STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, to enhance scientific research via the World Wide Web. Government agencies around the world reportedly make billions of bits of raw data available to the public each day. However, this data is… Read More
Rush-Copley Medical Center selects Thomson Reuters Pharmacy Xpert to improve medication management - December 9, 2010
Business information provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that Rush-Copley Medical Center has selected its Pharmacy Xpert to more effectively manage medication therapy and improve pharmacist efficiency. Pharmacy Xpert is a one-of-a-kind clinical intelligence dashboard that helps hospital pharmacists better manage medication therapy to improve outcomes,… Read More
GenomeQuest adds China sequence patents to IP research solution - December 7, 2010
GenomeQuest, a US-based provider of sequence data management (SDM) products, has announced that it has expanded its content for patent search to include sequences filed at SIPO, the patent office of China. More than 40,000 sequences from over 5000 Chinese patents are already indexed and searchable… Read More
WIT research group to lead EU project to provide increased security - December 6, 2010
A team of researchers in Waterford Institute of Technology's TSSG (Telecommunications Software and Systems Group) were recently appointed as lead co-ordinators of ENDORSE, a €3.7 million EU-wide research project to create technical and legal framework for data management, to prevent the accidental… Read More
