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
Ariadne launches new Pathway Studio knowledge base – ChemEffect - March 26, 2009
Bioinformatics firm Ariadne Genomics, Inc., US, has announced the launch of ChemEffect, a new Pathway Studio knowledge base that contains more than 425,000 biological facts and relationships linked to more than 17,000 small molecules, chemicals, and drugs. ChemEffect can be customised and installed to work… Read More
Bradford University Repository Project ready for launch - March 10, 2009
The Bradford University Repository Project (BURP) is ready for launch. The Project Team of the 1-year project has announced the forthcoming launch of Bradford Scholars - the University of Bradford online research archive. The archive is already available to users for viewing existing materials and contributing… Read More
Portico and INFORMS announce digital preservation agreement - March 6, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's online collection of 12 journals. With this inclusion, more than 8,400 e-journals and more than 5,600… Read More
GenomeQuest unveils new functionalities in sequence data management tool - March 5, 2009
GenomeQuest, Inc., a US-based provider of biological sequence search, content and analysis services, has announced the release of two new functionalities for sequence data management. The new functionalities - GQ Rapid Annotation Pipeline (RAP) and GQ Gene - are both part of the latest 5.2 version… Read More
