NARA and NTIS in deal to preserve digital scientific records - December 2, 2010
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) have announced an agreement ensuring long-term preservation and access to the NTIS collection of authenticated and secured digital scientific, technical, and engineering information (STEI). It is expected that the results of this… Read More
CABI’s full-text articles now total 100,000 - November 30, 2010
Life sciences publisher CABI, UK, has announced that it now has 100,000 full-text articles available to subscribers of its leading databases on CAB Direct. CABI started its full-text programme four years ago, and is now adding 33,000 articles, including journal papers and conference proceedings, each… Read More
Johns Hopkins University Libraries join HathiTrust to expand access - November 30, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University Libraries have become the latest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Johns Hopkins' initial role as part of HathiTrust… Read More
BMC Medical Education accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters - November 30, 2010
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Medical Education has been accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters. The journal will receive its first impact factor in June 2011. BMC Medical Education publishes articles on a range of topics relating to… Read More
The Biodiversity Heritage Library adds 14,000 records to WorldCat - November 25, 2010
Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that the Biodiversity Heritage Library has added more than 14,000 records of digitised materials, brought together from 12 institutions, to WorldCat. The Biodiversity Heritage Library claims to be one of the world's largest repositories of full-text digitised legacy biodiversity… Read More
VTLS to implement VITAL repository for National Centre for Vocational Education Research’ VOCED database - November 25, 2010
Library automation solutions provider VTLS Inc., US, has announced that it has been selected to implement the VITAL repository for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) VOCED database. The project, which began last April, is going to be a multi-phase process and will involve… Read More
Future Science journal accepted for coverage by MEDLINE - November 23, 2010
Publisher Future Science Ltd has announced that its journal, Bioanalysis, has been selected for coverage by MEDLINE. Maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is a bibliographic database containing about 13 million references to journal articles in… Read More
NLM Catalog and Journals Databases to merge - November 22, 2010
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced that the NLM Catalog will soon be redesigned to provide users with a streamlined interface and enhanced search and display of the 1.4 million bibliographic records in the NLM database. The NLM Catalog will contain detailed MEDLINE indexing… Read More
Baylor University Libraries join HathiTrust Digital Library consortium - November 17, 2010
The Baylor University Libraries have joined the Library of Congress and a group of more than 50 leading research universities in a partnership with HathiTrust, a collaborative digital archive initiative that will enhance research resources available to the Baylor community. HathiTrust was… Read More
NPG conducting experiments to enhance pre-publication data sharing practices - November 17, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it is conducting two experiments to help improve best practices for pre-publication data sharing and drafting of community standards in the genomics research community. NPG journals Nature Genetics and Nature Precedings are carrying out the two… Read More
