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
AAAS and Ex Libris Group partner to provide integrated access to online content - November 9, 2010
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the journal Science, has partnered with library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group to provide integrated access to its online content via Ex Libris' Primo Central Publisher Program. Full-text articles from… Read More
Academic library groups in Japan join CLOCKSS - October 29, 2010
CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a community-governed archive cooperative, has announced that two major academic library groups in Japan have joined the CLOCKSS archive. The library groups are: the Japanese Association of National University Libraries (JANUL) and the Private and Public University Libraries… Read More
Portico announces separate e-book and e-journal preservation services - October 26, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it will be offering separate e-book and e-journal preservation services, beginning January 1, 2011. The move is in response to both the library community's evolving preservation needs and the growth in publisher participation. These distinct services… Read More
Cornell University Library to deposit 300,000 digital books to HathiTrust - October 21, 2010
Cornell University Library, one of the leading academic research libraries in the US, has become the latest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative. Cornell's library will deposit 300,000 digital books into… Read More
