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
The Ex Libris Digital Preservation System goes live at the National Library of New Zealand - November 6, 2008
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that after a successful beta-testing period at the National Library of New Zealand (NLNZ), version 1.0 of the Ex Libris Digital Preservation System has gone live as scheduled. The Digital Preservation System, developed in collaboration with the… Read More
Portico, ASME sign preservation deal - October 31, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to preserve its online collection of 23 titles. With this inclusion, over 7,900 e-journals and 4,400 e-books have now been entrusted to… Read More
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
