SAGE and National Library of China agree access to backfile collection - April 7, 2010
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a new agreement with the National Library of China which enables access to SAGE’s deep backfiles for over 1425 libraries in China. The National Library of China helps to support the country’s research community with more than 241,100,000 volumes/items, including both… Read More
Society for Imaging Science and Technology signs preservation deal with Portico - March 24, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) to preserve the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology. Founded in 1947, IS&T is an international non-profit organisation that hosts conferences, develops educational programmes, maintains a… Read More
Portico to preserve Royal Society’ entire collection of e-journals - March 10, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the Royal Society. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the Society’s entire collection of seven e-journals. Through this agreement with Portico, the Royal Society seeks to further its preservation strategy, which includes participation in… Read More
Portico and Akadémiai Kiadó in deal to preserve e-journals - March 3, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Akadémiai Kiadó Publishers to preserve the latter’s entire collection of 52 e-journals. With this inclusion, over 10,600 e-journals and 34,000 e-books from 91 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now… Read More
Four European funders mandate submission to UK PubMed Central - March 1, 2010
Four European research funders have mandated that life sciences research outputs made possible with their funding be made freely available through open access repository UK PubMed Central (UKPMC). Launched in January 2007, UKPMC is a free-to-access digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical and life sciences research.… Read More
Five new publishers join CLOCKSS archive - February 23, 2010
Community-governed archive cooperative Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS) has announced that a group of five scholarly publishers have recently joined the CLOCKSS archive. The publishers are: American Academy of Pediatrics; Co-Action Publishers; Edinburgh University Press; Liverpool University Press; and Rockefeller University Press. CLOCKSS… Read More
Multi-Science Publishing journals accepted for inclusion into ISI and Scopus - February 23, 2010
Publisher Multi-Science Publishing, UK, has announced that a number of its journals have been accepted for inclusion into ISI and Scopus indexing systems. The International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching has been accepted for ISI's Social Sciences Citation Index, and will have an impact factor… Read More
Environmental journal allows authors to publish raw data files alongside their articles - February 22, 2010
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced that its open access journal, Environmental Research Letters, now provides authors with the ability to publish raw data files alongside their article, for free. Yu Song et al. from Peking University, China, are the first… Read More
2009 Collection of Cambridge Journals Digital Archives adds to over a century of research - February 17, 2010
Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press (CUP), US, has completed the 2009 Collection of its Digital Archives, adding to over a century of digitised research material. Over 3.3 million pages are now available in the 2009 Collection, the vast majority of which have never… Read More
Royal Holloway formally approves open access mandate for all research - February 16, 2010
Bedford Library Royal Holloway, University of London, has become the latest university in the UK to give formal approval to an open access publication policy requiring its researchers to deposit copies of their research in the Royal Holloway Research Online (RHRO) repository from September 1, 2010.… Read More
