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
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
