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
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
