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
British Library to showcase new web tools for UK PubMed Central - January 12, 2010
The British Library has announced that it will showcase a range of new search and data mining tools designed to unlock the scientific knowledge held by UK PubMed Central on January 12, 2010. Researchers will be able to access over 1.7 million full-text, peer reviewed biomedical… Read More
Ex Libris announces beta release of Rosetta Version 2.0 - January 12, 2010
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced the beta release of version 2.0 of the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system. Currently undergoing beta testing at the National Library of New Zealand, version 2.0 will be rolled out to Rosetta customers in spring 2010.… Read More
