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
Portico and Liverpool University Press in deal to preserve e-journals - February 11, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Liverpool University Press to preserve the latter’s entire collection of 13 online journals. With this inclusion, over 10,700 e-journals and 34,000 e-books from 91 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have… Read More
CrossRef exceeds 40 million metadata records for scholarly content - February 8, 2010
Reference linking services provider CrossRef, US, has announced that it has surpassed 40 million metadata records for scholarly content. Each of these records includes a CrossRef Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows the content to be accessed by a permanent link on the Internet. Of these… Read More
SPIE signs preservation agreement with Portico - February 4, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Inc. (SPIE). Under the deal, Portico will preserve SPIE’s current collection of 93 e-books as well as those to be published in the future. Through this agreement with… Read More
Thirteen Universities select Century of Social Sciences by Thomson Reuters - February 4, 2010
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that thirteen universities in Australia and New Zealand have selected Century of Social Sciences, a set of archival data (backfiles) covering research in the social sciences back to 1900, for their education and research needs. Century of Social… Read More
NLM receives grant to digitise materials from its medical collections - February 1, 2010
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, has been named a partner in a multi-centered grant to digitise materials in the history of medicine. As one of five libraries participating in the digital Medical Heritage Project, NLM will receive $360,000… Read More
ARL, others publish comments to FCC on preserving openness of Internet - January 19, 2010
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), EDUCAUSE, Internet2, NYSERNet and ACUTA have published comments, welcoming an initiative to preserve the openness of the Internet. The comments are part of a joint filing to the US’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the Net Neutrality proceedings. The non-profit… Read More
JSTOR now indexed in WorldCat.org - January 18, 2010
Authenticated scholars and researchers with online access to full-text content in JSTOR can now locate and connect to articles through WorldCat.org. JSTOR is a preservation archive and research platform for the academic community. Over 4.5 million JSTOR article-level records from more than… Read More
Portico to preserve OA content from BioMed Central - January 13, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it will preserve BioMed Central's entire collection of 60,000 open access online articles and all newly published articles going forward. With the inclusion of all articles from BioMed Central's 205 online journals, over 10,700 e-journals, including… Read More
