Walter de Gruyter announces preservation deal with Portico - June 5, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Walter de Gruyter to preserve its entire electronic book collection of about 1,200 titles. Through this agreement with Portico, Walter de Gruyter furthers its preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico on behalf… Read More
NRC-CISTI launches gateway to scientific data - May 27, 2009
The National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), Canada, recently launched a new initiative, Gateway to Scientific Data, for researchers to access scientific data generated during the research process. Researchers now have a central gateway for easier access to Canadian scientific, technical… Read More
Cambridge Journals launches new digital archive - May 26, 2009
Cambridge Journals, a division of Cambridge University Press (CUP), US, has announced the launch of a digital archive featuring over 20,000 issues of academic journals published by CUP.
Wolters Kluwer Health and Portico announce archiving deal - May 20, 2009
Medical information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has signed an agreement with non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, to enable the digital preservation of its extensive online journal collection. The agreement ensures that the more than 300 periodicals published by Lippincott Williams &… Read More
Portico announces preservation deal with M.E. Sharpe - May 15, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with publisher M.E. Sharpe to preserve its entire online journals collection of 38 titles. With this inclusion, over 14,000 e-books and e-journals have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Through this agreement with Portico,… Read More
HathiTrust launches digital catalogue search - May 13, 2009
The HathiTrust Digital Library, a partnership among some of the US's largest academic research libraries, has launched a new digital catalogue search that delivers nearly 3 million full-text records through an Internet browser. The new service provides access to the collections of premier research libraries in… Read More
GenomeQuest releases Digital Gene Expression solution for researchers working with next-generation sequencing data - May 13, 2009
GenomeQuest, Inc., a US-based provider of biological sequence search, content and analysis services, has announced the release of a Digital Gene Expression Workflow designed to enable researchers working with next-generation sequencing data. The Digital Gene Expression Workflow is the second such workflow to be delivered by… Read More
Scientific data repository Dryad obtains $2 million grant from US foundation - May 11, 2009
The US' National Science Foundation has announced a $2.18 grant for Dryad, a digital data repository designed to archive data that underlie published findings in evolutionary biology, ecology and related fields. The repository allows scientists to access and build on each other's findings. The grant recipients… Read More
Access to Brief Treatment & Crisis Intervention to be available through preservation services - April 29, 2009
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced that the journal Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, which has been discontinued, will be accessible through two preservation services - CLOCKSS and Portico. Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention ceased publication at the end of… Read More
DOAJ launches cooperative initiative for long-term preservation of OA journals - April 3, 2009
The Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) of Lund University Libraries and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) have announced the launch of an initiative to secure the long-term preservation of OA journals. The initiative is being sponsored by the Swedish Library… Read More
