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
EBSCO Publishing becomes first aggregated database provider with SUSHI compliant server - September 26, 2008
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO publishing (EBSCO), a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., US, has released a SUSHI server making it the first full text database vendor to support the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI). SUSHI facilitates automated retrieval of usage data from EBSCOhost databases… Read More
Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd. signs preservation agreement with Portico - September 25, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with Scientific Journal Publishers (SJP) Ltd., New Zealand, to preserve the latter's online journal, Social Behavior & Personality. Founded in 1973, Social Behavior & Personality seeks to foster scientific communication in the disciplines of social,… Read More
Bentham Open sign preservation deal with Portico - September 19, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has entered into an agreement with Bentham Open to preserve the latter's online journals collection. Bentham Open publishes open access journals, exclusively online, in all major disciplines of science, including engineering, mathematics, chemistry, medicine, life sciences, pharmaceutical science, earth… Read More
GenomeQuest launches on-demand informatics solution for sequencing research - September 18, 2008
GenomeQuest, Inc., a US-based provider of biological sequence search, content and analysis services, has announced the launch of its On-Demand Informatics Solution. The data management solution allows researchers to securely access the company's biomedical compute cloud resources to transform raw next-generation sequencing data into highly enriched,… Read More
