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
Springer, CLOCKSS in deal to support sustainable digital preservation - December 5, 2008
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has announced a partnership with the community-governed archive cooperative Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS) to preserve Springer content in the CLOCKSS global archive. Springer publishes over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as… Read More
DRJ Japan, DRIVER to work together to promote digital repositories - December 5, 2008
Digital Repository Federation (DRF) Japan and Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER) have signed an agreement to work closely together on promoting federated repository infrastructures. The move follows the recently held SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008. DRIVER is a joint initiative of European stakeholders,… Read More
Oxford Journals, ISTIC sign archiving deal - December 4, 2008
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced an agreement with the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC). The deal will enable thousands of Chinese researchers to access archival content dating back to 1849 for over 150 journals. ISTIC,… Read More
Thieme Publishing Group and Portico announce preservation deal - November 24, 2008
STM publisher Thieme Publishing Group, Germany, has announced an archiving agreement with non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US. Under the deal, all journals and backfiles available through Thieme eJournals (www.thieme-connect.com/ejournals) are being archived with the organisation. The long-term availability of electronic… Read More
Portico, NISO announce preservation agreement - November 18, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) to preserve its online publication, Information Standards Quarterly. With this inclusion, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Through this agreement… Read More
Digital repository HathiTrust offers beta version of full-text search feature - November 12, 2008
HathiTrust, a digital repository for some of the US' research libraries, has announced that it is currently experimenting with large-scale full text searching. The move is part of an effort to create a mechanism to search across the entire repository. As an initial public beta of… Read More
Society for Endocrinology releases archive going back to 1939 - November 11, 2008
The Society for Endocrinology has unveiled its new online archive charting the history of endocrinology over the past 70 years. The archive, which comprises a collection of material published from 1939 to late 1997, will be available from January 2009. It is hosted by online services… Read More
Portico to preserve the Indiana University Mathematics Journal - November 7, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it will preserve the online version of the Indiana University Mathematics Journal. With this inclusion, over 8,000 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. Through this agreement with Portico, the journal… Read More
