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
CSHL Press releases the Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive - November 2, 2009
Laboratory manuals publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), US, has released the Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive, a complete online collection of its scholarly monographs. The 59-volume archive includes all monographs published by CSHL Press from 1970 to 2009. It spans a range of… Read More
CRC unveils significant upgrades to RoMEO service for publishers and authors - October 27, 2009
The UK’s Centre for Research Communications (CRC) has announced significant upgrades and additions to the SHERPA service, RoMEO. The RoMEO service – targeted at publishers and authors - is provided by the Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (SHERPA) team at CRC. Previous… Read More
Thieme makes primary data for chemistry available via alliance with TIB - October 26, 2009
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced a collaboration with the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) to make primary chemistry data accessible worldwide. Thieme claims to be the first publisher to offer worldwide access to primary chemistry data. Analytical data, from various… Read More
Informa journal Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE - October 21, 2009
Medical scientific publisher Informa Healthcare, UK, has announced the inclusion of the journal Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods in the US National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE Index. Maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is a premier bibliographic… Read More
BMC Medical Genomics accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters - October 13, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Medical Genomics has now been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters. The journal will get its first impact factor in June 2010. Since its launch in January 2008, BMC Medical Genomics has published more… Read More
Publishing Technology launches new ICE Virtual Library for the Institution of Civil Engineers - October 9, 2009
Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, recently launched a new and expanded ICE Virtual Library for the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and its publishing subsidiary Thomas Telford. The platform provides the first consolidated home for journal and book archives that date back to… Read More
Thomson Reuters and GenomeQuest partner to deliver biological sequence information - October 1, 2009
Information services provider Thomson Reuters, US, has announced a new partnership with GenomeQuest, Inc., a US-based provider of biological sequence search, content and analysis services. Under the deal, Thomson Reuters patent sequence data in GENESEQ will be integrated with the GenomeQuest IP… Read More
Seven BioMed Central journals accepted for coverage in AGRICOLA - September 25, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that seven of its journals have been accepted for inclusion in AGRICOLA. AGRICOLA is an indexing service from the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library. The journals are: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, BMC Ecology, BMC Plant Biology,… Read More
