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
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
