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
American Medical News opens access to online news archive - November 12, 2010
American Medical Association (AMA) has announced that its award-winning newspaper, American Medical News, is offering unrestricted access to its online news archive at amednews.com. The online news archive dates back to January 2000, with selected earlier content. It represents a rich resource on issues confronting physicians… Read More
F1000 Reports journals in Biology and Medicine now indexed in PubMed Central - November 11, 2010
Article evaluation services provider Faculty of 1000 (F1000), UK, has announced that two of its review journals - F1000 Biology Reports and F1000 Medicine Reports - are now indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central. Adding an extra dimension to the F1000 service, the F1000 Reports journals… Read More
