PubMed and PubMed Central announce new milestones - September 6, 2010
PubMed, a service of the US National Library of Medicine, recently attained a major milestone when the 20 millionth citation was added to the database. This occurred on July 27, 2010. The same day, PubMed Central (PMC), the National Institutes of Health's free digital archive for… Read More
BioMed Central launches open data movement for increased access to research data - September 3, 2010
Open access journal BMC Research Notes has announced that it has commissioned a large, ongoing collection of educational articles which outline procedures for sharing data that enable the data to be readily re-used by others. The initiative is seen to provide researchers with best practice guidance for exposing their 'dark… Read More
JSTOR unveils update to interface changes, limiting search to licensed content - September 2, 2010
JSTOR, the preservation archive and research platform arm of the not-for-profit ITHAKA, recently released a new interface. One feature of the new interface - the ability for any user to submit a search against all JSTOR content - has reportedly drawn strong reactions from many in… Read More
ProQuest adds Singapore Management University content to Dissertations & Theses database - August 16, 2010
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that the Singapore Management University, through a joint project with its Office of Research and its Li Ka Shing Library, has joined the ranks of research institutions worldwide who contribute to ProQuest's acclaimed Dissertations and Theses database.… Read More
European consortium to tackle digital preservation challenge launched - August 10, 2010
A new not-for-profit international consortium known as the Open Planets Foundation (OPF) has been formed to tackle the digital preservation challenge in Europe. Covering everything from medical records to family photos, current estimates suggest that there already exists over 100 GB of data for every individual… Read More
Walsh Medical Media journal accepted for indexing in MEDLINE - August 10, 2010
Healthcare information provider Walsh Medical Media, US, has announced that its journal Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses (CS) has been accepted for inclusion in the US National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database, MEDLINE. CS provides psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals with the latest research and… Read More
JSTOR’s Current Scholarship Program now available via EBSCO - August 6, 2010
Content technology and consultative services provider EBSCO has announced that library customers can now purchase subscriptions to titles in JSTOR's Current Scholarship Program (CSP). Pricing and title lists can be obtained via EBSCONET, an EBSCO representative or from the JSTOR website. CSP currently includes 174 titles… Read More
Library of Congress forms National Digital Stewardship Alliance - August 4, 2010
The Library of Congress has announced the formation of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), a partnership of institutions and organisations dedicated to preserving and providing access to selected databases, web pages, video, audio and other digital content with enduring value. The alliance is a result… Read More
UK’s open data observed to be difficult to comprehend - August 2, 2010
In an official podcast broadcast recently, Richard Sterling, the cabinet official behind the UK government's open data initiative, has expressed concerns that users are not drawing 'sensible conclusions' from public sector data sets. However, visualisation, he states, could provide the answer. Sterling admitted in the podcast that users are striving… Read More
JISC funded project to open up data on climate research - July 30, 2010
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced a new investment to improve the way UK university researchers manage their data. As a result of this initiative, climate scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) will soon be demonstrating new methods of providing open… Read More
