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
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
