Maney Publishing partners with digital preservation services to secure e-journal content - July 6, 2010
Academic Publisher Maney Publishing, UK, has joined the CLOCKSS, LOCKSS and Portico digital preservation services to guarantee the long-term security of its e-journal content. Maney currently has more than 100 e-journals in materials science and engineering, health sciences and humanities. The partnerships seek to enhance the… Read More
Portico and Wiley announce archive license agreement - June 28, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that publisher John Wiley & Sons has entered into an archive license agreement to preserve its collection of more than 8,000 online scholarly monographs. This agreement expands the global publisher's relationship with Portico, which began in 2006 with Wiley's… Read More
Future Science Group journals selected for coverage on Embase - June 24, 2010
Publisher Future Science Group, UK, has announced that its journals Epigenomics, Imaging in Medicine and Interventional Cardiology have been selected for coverage on Embase. Embase is a comprehensive database which holds over 20 million indexed records from more than 7,000 active, peer-reviewed journals. The database delivers… Read More
Researchers to gain free access to journals published in Africa - June 21, 2010
A full-text, digital archive of journal articles published in Africa is now available at www.ajarchive.org. The African Journal Archive is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by South Africa-based Sabinet. It will make African research and cultural heritage published in Africa available free… Read More
Portico and John Benjamins Publishing Company in deal to preserve e-journals - June 21, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company to preserve the latter's entire collection of 47 e-journals. With the inclusion of these 47 e-journals, over 11,000 e-journals, 33,000 e-books and 10 d-collections from 110 publishers on… Read More
Portico Archive reaches new milestone in digital preservation - June 16, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that 110 publishers, representing over 2,000 professional and scholarly societies, are now participating in the Portico archive. Furthermore, nearly 15 million articles are now safely preserved in the Portico archive. The 110 publishers who have entrusted their… Read More
GPO joins digital preservation alliance – LOCKSS - June 15, 2010
The US Government Printing Office (GPO) has joined a worldwide digital preservation alliance, Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS). With this move, GPO seeks to collaborate with federal depository libraries and other organisations on preservation initiatives. Since its founding in 1861,… Read More
JISC, Research Libraries UK unveil plans to open up metadata - June 10, 2010
The Resource Discovery Taskforce, organised by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Research Libraries UK (RLU), announced its vision at a recent JISC event called 'Survive or Thrive'. According to the taskforce, new plans to open up library, archive and museum collections will make it… Read More
Expert panel examines role of libraries in preserving and disseminating research data - June 9, 2010
A panel of experts at the US' National Academies of Science recently discussed the role of libraries in the curation and preservation of, and access to, research data. The talks were held under the auspices of the National Research Council's Board on Research Data and Information.… Read More
Thomas Telford signs preservation deal with Portico - June 3, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced a preservation agreement with Thomas Telford, the UK-based knowledge business of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Thomas Telford's initial commitment will be to deposit to the archive the 35 e-journals and proceedings series published on behalf of… Read More
