JISC-funded repository adds 1000th item - July 23, 2009
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that a JISC-funded repository based at Warwick University has uploaded its 1,000th item, just under a year after its launch. The Warwick Research Archive Project (WRAP) continues to add articles and PhD theses to the free… Read More
Portico, Brill sign digital preservation agreement - July 17, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher Brill, Netherlands. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's entire online journals collection of 130 titles. With this inclusion, over 10,000 e-journals and 27,000 e-books from 74 publishers on behalf of… Read More
Elsevier journal accepted for coverage in MEDLINE - July 9, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that PM&R -The journal of injury, function and rehabilitation has been accepted for coverage by MEDLINE, just six months after its launch in January 2009. Maintained by the US National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System… Read More
NRC-CISTI, CIHR and the US National Library of Medicine announce three-way partnership to establish PubMed Central Canada - July 8, 2009
The National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) have announced a three-way partnership to establish PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). PMC Canada will be a national digital… Read More
NPG ties up with Charlesworth to incorporate XMP metadata in PDF version of ‘Nature’ - July 1, 2009
Publishing solutions provider The Charlesworth Group, UK, has announced a partnership with scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, to incorporate eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata within online PDFs for the science journal Nature. The move is expected to improve the archiving of new… Read More
Laurier University teams up with BioMed to launch institutional repository - June 25, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, and Wilfrid Laurier University have announced the launch of Laurier IR, an institutional repository. Laurier IR provides a visible point of open access archiving of intellectual output for all members of the university community. Built on BioMed Central's 'Open Repository'… Read More
NPG permits data- and text-mining on self-archived manuscripts - June 22, 2009
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that it will explicitly permit academic reuse of archived author manuscripts. The announcement was made by David Hoole, Head of Content Licensing, at the OAI6 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Researchers can now data-mine and text-mine author manuscripts… Read More
Springer expands agreement with Portico - June 19, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that STM publisher Springer, Germany, has expanded its agreement with the digital preservation service. The company has named Portico as a mechanism for perpetual access (also known as post-cancellation access) for its more than 800 titles preserved… Read More
Emerald signs agreement with Portico to preserve e-journals - June 17, 2009
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced an agreement with non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US. Portico provides a service to permanently preserve scholarly research in electronic form so that this information will remain accessible to… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health signs preservation deal with Portico - June 12, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US. Under the deal, Portico will preserve more than 300 periodicals published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), Adis International, and Facts… Read More
