Portico and Casalini Libri announce preserve deal - May 26, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced a preservation agreement with Casalini Libri, the Fiesole-based aggregator and distributor of Italian, French, and Spanish books and periodicals to academic institutions and national, university and public libraries throughout the world. Casalini Libri's initial commitment will be… Read More
Thieme Publishing Group joins CLOCKSS - May 19, 2010
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has joined CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a community-governed archive cooperative. CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit joint venture between leading scholarly publishers and research libraries. These organisations are working together to guarantee the permanent… Read More
Portico to preserve Begell House’s entire collection of e-journals - May 18, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Begell House to preserve the latter’s entire collection of 38 e-journals. Begell House is a publisher of books and journals in both print and electronic form. These publications provide the latest research in the… Read More
TIB assumes responsibility for digital preservation of scientific content - May 12, 2010
The German National Library of Science & Technology (TIB) has announced that it has assumed responsibility for the digital preservation and availability of textual and non-textual materials. TIB, together with partner libraries ZB MED and ZBW within the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information (Goportis), is… Read More
Scientific American’s archive to 1948 now available online - May 6, 2010
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced Scientific American's online archive for institutional customers on nature.com at www.nature.com/scientificamerican/archive. The Scientific American online archive contains the complete collection of Scientific American from May 1948 to December 2005. Containing over 650 issues and… Read More
Maney Publishing expands archive offerings - May 3, 2010
Publisher Maney Publishing, UK has announced that over one-third of its journals in materials science and engineering, health sciences and humanities now have full archives available online following a retrodigitisation programme. The digital archives feature up to 80 years of journal content. Over 1,500 issues of… Read More
Canada joins international network of PubMed Central - April 29, 2010
Canadian researchers will now be able to contribute to a growing, searchable digital archive of published Canadian health research with the newly launched PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). PMC Canada is the result of a partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health… Read More
Communications of the ACM examines new approach to lifelogging through Psychology - April 27, 2010
The prospect of producing personal digital archives has become a holy grail for many technologists and researchers, according to the cover story in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM (CACM), a print and online publication for the computing and information technology fields. The authors… Read More
JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions accepted for coverage by Thomson Reuters abstracting and indexing services - April 26, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, and the American College of Cardiology have announced that the journal JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions has been accepted for coverage by Thomson Reuters (formerly Thomson Scientific/ISI) abstracting and indexing services, including the Journal Citation Reports. The Journal will receive its first impact factor in 2011.… Read More
European Parliament to debate report on developing online library Europeana - April 20, 2010
The European Parliament will debate a report, drafted by German MEP Helga Trüpel, that calls on member states to provide more books, maps, film clips and photographs for the Europeana online library portal. While asking for more and better content on Europeana,… Read More
