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
NLM accepts Aesthetic Surgery Journal for indexing in MEDLINE and PubMed - January 7, 2009
Aesthetic Surgery Journal (ASJ), an official peer-reviewed publication of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), has been accepted for indexing by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in MEDLINE and PubMed. MEDLINE is the NLM's premier bibliographic database containing references… Read More
Ariadne’ Pathway Studio integrated with Illumina’s new GenomeStudio software - January 6, 2009
Bioinformatics firm Ariadne Genomics, Inc., US, has announced the completion of a key partner programme with Illumina Inc. to provide advanced integration and interpretation capabilities for data generated from their iScan and BeadArray Reader platforms. The coupling of Ariadne's Pathway Studio to Illumina's next generation software,… Read More
Resources and presentations from recent SPARC repositories meeting now online - December 23, 2008
Thought leaders and practitioners from higher education and beyond called on participants at the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting in Baltimore on November 17-18 to continue their digital repository development efforts and offered strategies for building on experience gained to date. In the opening keynote, John Wilbanks,… Read More
New Portuguese scientific OA repository launched - December 19, 2008
Portugal's publicly-funded Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) was recently launched at the 3rd Open Access conference that took place at University of Minho on December 15 - 16, 2008. RCAAP gathers content from 10 institutional repositories from across the country. The new open… Read More
JISC funded TOCs service launched for scholarly journals - December 18, 2008
A new scholarly journals tables of contents (TOCs) service called ticTOCs - Journal Tables of Contents Service (http://www.tictocs.ac.uk) has been launched to keep users abreast with scholarly literature. ticTOCs, funded under the JISC Users & Innovations programme, has been developed by an international consortium led by… Read More
New advisory handbook on preserving web resources - December 12, 2008
The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced the availability of a new handbook created by its Preservation of Web Resources (PoWR) project. The book offers information for web managers, data professionals and those making decisions concerning the long-term preservation of… Read More
