Portico and American Geophysical Union sign archiving deal - January 6, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to preserve 10 online journals. With this inclusion, over 10,700 e-journals and 34,000 e-books from 92 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted… Read More
British Library close to gaining legal powers to archive millions of websites - December 28, 2009
British Library, the national library of the UK, will reportedly gain legal powers to archive millions of websites after media reports exposed long delays in introducing the measures. The move by UK ministers to fast-track the provision of new legal powers to British Library follows warnings… Read More
Palgrave Macmillan signs preservation deal with Portico - December 16, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with academic publisher Palgrave Macmillan. Under the deal, Portico will preserve about 5,400 e-books hosted on the Palgrave Connect platform. With this inclusion, over 10,600 e-journals and 34,000 e-books from… Read More
Waters SDMS Vision Publisher made compliant with SAFE-BioPharma standard - December 16, 2009
Laboratory solutions provider Waters Corporation, US, has announced that SDMS Vision Publisher, an electronic laboratory notebook solution for its NuGenesis Scientific Data Management System, has been certified compliant with the SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard. The SAFE-BioPharma standard is broadly used within the pharmaceutical industry… Read More
Elsevier relaunches biomedical database ‘Embase’ - December 1, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced a re-launch of Embase, its biomedical database which holds over 20 million indexed records from more than 7,000 active, peer-reviewed journals. Embase claims to have played a key role in the advancement of new biomedical and pharmaceutical insights. New… Read More
The JAMA & Archives Backfiles collection now available - November 30, 2009
The American Medical Association has announced that it has digitised the entire archive of JAMA & Archives journals. The JAMA & Archives Backfiles include every issue of JAMA and the specialty Archives Journals dating back to the first issue of JAMA, published in July 1883. Fully… Read More
ProQuest adds Deep Indexing technology to select Natural Science and Technology databases - November 26, 2009
Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has announced that it has incorporated its patent-pending Deep Indexing technology, pioneered with the company’s Illustrata offerings, into selected natural science, technology, and engineering subject-oriented databases. Deep Indexing will surface data from more than seven million tables and figures… Read More
DataONE global data access network for environmental research launched - November 20, 2009
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and partners have launched DataONE (http://dataone.org), a global data access and preservation network projected to make vast amounts of information related to environmental research readily available. The network, which has received a $20 million grant through the… Read More
Ex Libris and Bavarian State Library announce strategic partnership for long term preservation - November 19, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Germany, has announced that the Bavarian State Library has selected the Rosetta digital preservation system, which will preserve and provide access to the extensive and rapidly growing digital collections of the Bavarian State Library. The Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation… Read More
ACM partners with CLOCKSS, Portico to offer electronic archiving services - November 9, 2009
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it is providing its institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to preserve their electronic resources. These services, provided by Portico and CLOCKSS, are aimed to help the scholarly community obtain reliable, secure, deliverable access to… Read More
