Bioanalysis accepted for coverage by ISI: Science Citation Index Expanded - October 18, 2010
Publisher Future Science Ltd has announced that its journal, Bioanalysis, has been selected for coverage by ISI: Science Citation Index Expanded, available as the Web of Science, Biosis Previews and Biosis Reviews Reports and Meetings. Maintained by Thomson Scientific, ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) offers bibliographic… Read More
Scottish Higher Education Digital Library institutions join Portico - October 14, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, and the Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) has announced that all 19 SHEDL institutions have initiated participation in the Portico digital preservation service. By joining Portico, Scottish libraries and their faculty and students now are assured future access… Read More
INSPEC and NASA index World Scientific’s books and proceedings - October 13, 2010
Scientific publisher World Scientific Publishing Company, US, has announced that its books and proceedings will now gain greater coverage in the scientific community following the indexing of its titles by INSPEC and NASA. In addition to its current inclusion of over 60 of World Scientific's and… Read More
Higher Education institutions to play key role in securing the UK’s digital legacy - October 4, 2010
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Open Planets Foundation (OPF) are collaborating to encourage the UK's leading Higher Education (HE) institutions to take up a central role in European wide efforts to preserve digital heritage. Recently announced at the iPres conference in Vienna,… Read More
Journal of the American Society of Hypertension accepted for coverage in MEDLINE - October 4, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Journal of the American Society of Hypertension (JASH) has been selected for inclusion in MEDLINE. MEDLINE is the premier bibliographic database of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), containing over 15 million journal article citations, with a… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Germany supports further development of EU project addressing Linked Open Data - September 30, 2010
Information solution provider Wolters Kluwer Germany is working on the further development of technologies related to 'Linked Open Data' (LOD). The project, which began in September, is intended to establish the Linked Data Principle faster and easier in companies, web communities, and governmental institutions. LOD2 is… Read More
NLM launches repository for preservation of digitised biomedical resources - September 29, 2010
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the US' National Institutes of Health, has launched a new digital repository, Digital Collections, at http://collections.nlm.nih.gov. The new resource is complementary to the PubMed Central digital archive of electronic journal articles (Read More
Portico and Berghahn Journals announce preservation deal - September 17, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Berghahn Journals to preserve the latter's collection of 29 e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, Berghahn seeks to ensure that its e-journals will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers and students. Berghahn… Read More
Portico and Taylor & Francis sign agreement to preserve e-books - September 14, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has entered into a license agreement with Taylor & Francis Group. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the publisher's entire collection of e-books. With this agreement, Taylor & Francis expands its relationship with Portico, which began in 2006 with… Read More
Thomson Reuters develops profiles of global universities and institutions - September 9, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that it has collected data on hundreds of institutions and research facilities from around the world. The result is the Global Institutional Profiles Project, an advanced data-driven view of globally significant universities and research institutions available. Incorporating scholarly… Read More
