Global science community to form virtual library for scientific data - October 27, 2008
Scientific organisations representing over 130 countries have agreed to overhaul existing world data centres and services to create a World Data System, the International Council for Science (ICSU) has announced. The existing networks for collecting, storing and distributing data in many areas of science are seen… Read More
Walter de Gruyter signs preservation deal with Portico - October 21, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, recently entered into an agreement with Walter de Gruyter, Germany, to preserve 61 titles from its online journal collection. With this inclusion, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. For more than… Read More
Turkish Government’s Scientific and Technological Research council signs three year deal for ISI Web of Knowledge - October 17, 2008
The Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, US, has announced that the Turkish Government's Scientific and Technological Research Organization's (TUBITAK) R&D Facility Institute, The Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre (ULAKBIM), has signed a three year contract for the ISI Web of Knowledge platform. The science, social… Read More
PEER initiative to examine effects of systematic archiving - October 16, 2008
Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER), an initiative supported by the European Union (EU), has announced that it will investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors' final peer reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility and… Read More
US library group launches digital repository, HathiTrust - October 15, 2008
A group of research libraries in the US are collaborating to create a repository of their vast digital collections, including millions of books, to be archived and preserved in a single repository called the HathiTrust. Materials in the public domain will be available for reading online.… Read More
ALPSP scholarly publishing practice survey on long-term digital preservation now available online - October 14, 2008
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers, recently undertook a survey of its members to enhance awareness of long-term digital preservation issues and to establish the nature and extent of strategies that they have planned.… Read More
Global Health Archive now available on EBSCOhost - October 14, 2008
Bibliographic databases, books, and interactive electronic resources publisher CABI, UK, has announced that its Global Health Archive is now accessible on EBSCOhost. Global Health Archive includes more than 800,000 records and provides information on public health, tropical & communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology,… Read More
EEGS publications added to SEG Digital Library on Scitation platform - October 9, 2008
The Society of Exploration Geophysics (SEG), US, has announced that the complete journal and proceedings archives of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS) have been added to its publications portal, SEG Digital Library (http://www.segdl.org). The addition is seen to enhance SEG Digital Library's coverage… Read More
Hogrefe & Huber Publishers to preserve e-Journals in Portico - October 7, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, Germany, to preserve its twelve English-language online journals that cover a range of areas in psychology and psychiatry. Through this agreement with Portico, Hogrefe & Huber seeks to ensure that… Read More
Bowker launches data warehouse services for small, mid-size publishers using PubTrack - September 26, 2008
Bibliographic information provider Bowker, US, has announced the introduction of a new data warehouse module for its PubTrack business intelligence service for the publishing industry. The new module is seen to be a breakthrough for small and medium-sized publishers as it levels the playing field with… Read More
