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
Portico and Medknow Publications announce archiving deal - March 3, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Medknow Publications, India. Under the deal, Portico will preserve the latter's entire online journals collection of 77 titles. Medknow is a publisher of academic and scientific peer-reviewed open access journals. Through this agreement, Medknow… Read More
Portico and Duke University Press sign agreement to preserve e-books - February 20, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Duke University Press to preserve electronic books from the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. With the inclusion of Duke University Press' e-books, nearly 8,300 e-journals and 4,700 e-books have now been… Read More
SPRESI structure and reaction database made available via Symyx Isentris - February 12, 2009
Symyx Technologies, Inc., a US-based provider of technologies for R&D, has announced that the SPRESI structure and reaction database from InfoChem GmbH is now available to chemists via the Symyx Isentris data access, analysis and decision support system. The SPRESI (SPeicherung und REcherche Strukturchemischer Information) database… Read More
Ten million journal articles preserved within Portico archive - February 6, 2009
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that more than 10 million journal articles are preserved within the Portico archive. Launched in 2005 with support from JSTOR, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ithaka, and the Library of Congress, Portico provides a permanent archive of… Read More
HathiTrust and OCLC to enhance discovery of digital collections - January 29, 2009
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced that it will work together with HathiTrust to increase visibility of and access to items in the HathiTrust's shared digital repository. HathiTrust is a group of some of the largest… Read More
Ex Libris joins European consortium to make audiovisual media accessible over time - January 29, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that based on its experience in the development of digital preservation systems for libraries, the Company was invited to become a member of the PrestoPrime consortium. PrestoPrime is a European Union project, funded by the Seventh Framework… Read More
