Really Strategies releases new enhanced version of RSuite CMS - September 18, 2008
Content provider Really Strategies, Inc., US, has announced the release of version 3.0 of its content management system, RSuite CMS. The latest update to RSuite provides progressive editorial features, including RSuite Forms, a plug-in to access RSuite from Adobe CS3 InCopy, and XML Editor integrations. The… Read More
Portico and Ammons Scientific Ltd. announce preservation deal - September 12, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Ammons Scientific Ltd., US, to preserve the latter's two online journals - Perceptual and Motor Skills and Psychological Reports. Ammons Scientific Ltd. has published both titles in print since… Read More
ProQuest, Google form partnership to digitise newspaper content - September 11, 2008
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, has announced a partnership with Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, to bring millions of pages of newspaper content to the open web. The programme allows web access to archives of both large and small newspapers, which might never… Read More
Royal Society Publishing selects PublishingAtWork as its new production tracking system - September 11, 2008
Royal Society Publishing (RSP), the publishing division of the Royal Society, UK, and Clariti Systems Ltd, a UK based independent software and web solution provider, have announced a new partnership to track the production of the publications of Britain's national science academy… Read More
JISC DRAI project catalogues 3,707 free collections - September 4, 2008
The JISC Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory (DRAI) project, which seeks to provide a comprehensive snapshot of digital resource provision in the UK, has completed phase 2 of the project. A total of 3,707 online collections have been catalogued. Staff and students in higher education can… Read More
Lockheed Martin bags contract to support new NIH wing - September 4, 2008
Technology company Lockheed Martin Corporation, US, has announced that it has received a five-year, single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract worth up to $32 million to support the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Under the deal, Lockheed Martin will provide technical, scientific, management and administrative services… Read More
Canadian group to address research data management issues - August 15, 2008
Canadian universities, institutes, libraries, granting agencies and individual researchers have formed a multi-disciplinary group called the Research Data Strategy (RDS) Working Group to examine the nation's data management issues. This follows observations that Canada does not have nationally adopted standards or policies governing how data is collected, catalogued or preserved.… Read More
ProQuest expands Periodical Archive, releases new collection - August 14, 2008
ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company, has announced the completion of Collection 6 and launch of Collection 7 of Periodicals Archive Online. Periodicals Archive Online is known for its access to international, scholarly literature from 37 subject areas in the arts, humanities and social sciences, spanning… Read More
Cusat launches institutional repository for research publications and theses - August 12, 2008
The Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) in India has launched an institutional repository where its research publications and Ph.D. theses will be available online for the public. Jointly developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Labs, the service enables the… Read More
Bayer CropScience acquires licence for Ariadne’s Pathway Studio - August 11, 2008
Bioinformatics firm Ariadne Genomics, Inc., US, has announced that Bayer CropScience AG, Germany, has licensed its Pathway Studio platform with the ResNet Plant database to supplement its plant stress reactions research. In particular, the company will use Pathway Studio for gene expression analysis of plant and… Read More
