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
Ex Libris launches collaboration initiative for design of digital preservation system - January 21, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced a Charter Program to foster strategic collaboration between the company and its customers on the ongoing design of the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system. Having gone live at the National Library of New Zealand in November… Read More
OCLC announces new CONTENTdm version - January 20, 2009
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has released CONTENTdm 5, a new version of CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management software. In direct response to input provided by more than 1,000 CONTENTdm users, OCLC development staff designed new features and improved existing features as… Read More
Ex Libris unveils Digital Preservation System with new branding - January 12, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced the release of Ex Libris Rosetta, a tool that helps national and academic libraries and archives to collect and preserve cumulative knowledge in digital format. Previously known as the Digital Preservation System (DPS), the product supports the… Read More
UKDA releases new suite of web pages on data management and sharing - January 7, 2009
The UK Data Archive (UKDA) recently announced the release of its new suite of web pages providing guidance on data management and sharing. The pages aim to provide data creators, data managers and data curators with best practice strategies and methods for creating, preparing and storing… Read More
