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
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
