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
Portico and Philosophy Documentation Center announce preservation deal - July 27, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced a preservation agreement with the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC), a non-profit aggregator and distributor of scholarly resources in applied ethics, philosophy, classics, and related disciplines. PDC's initial commitment will be to deposit 50 e-journals to the archive.… Read More
Beech Tree Publishing to preserve e-journals in Portico - July 21, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced a preservation agreement with Beech Tree Publishing. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's collection of three e-journals. Beech Tree is an independent UK-based company that publishes the peer-reviewed academic journals Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal,… Read More
Maney Publishing and Portico announce preservation deal - July 13, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced a preservation agreement with academic publisher Maney Publishing. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's entire collection of 111 e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, Maney seeks to ensure that its collection of e-journals will be… Read More
ECS EPrints among top ten in world ranking of institutional repositories - July 12, 2010
The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) EPrints repository of research publications is now one of the top ten in the world, according to the official world ranking of institutional repositories. Southampton ECS EPrints is ranked number 10 in the world, just… Read More
