PRISM launches PRISM Cookbook to address implementation issues - July 10, 2008
Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM), an IDEAlliance Working Group, has announced the availability of the new PRISM Cookbook for Profile 1 (XML) Implementers. The PRISM 2.0 Specifications and Cookbook can be freely downloaded from http://www.prismstandard.org/. The PRISM Cookbook builds on… Read More
SPARC Europe signs agreement with Driver to jointly promote repositories - July 9, 2008
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Europe and European Digital Repository Research Infrastructure (Driver) have signed an agreement to work together for promoting repositories. The cooperation is seen to help progress and enhance the provision, visibility and application of European research… Read More
US Department of Energy launches open data repository - July 4, 2008
The US Department of Energy has launched the DOE Data Explorer (DDE), a tool to find scientific research data generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines. The data that can be found include computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive… Read More
Project Euclid announces new pricing model for Euclid Prime collection - July 3, 2008
Project Euclid, the online information community for mathematics and statistics resources from independent and society publishers, has introduced a new pricing model for its Euclid Prime collection. The move follows a recent announcement that Duke University Press and Cornell University Library have established a joint venture… Read More
Princeton University Press selects Ingram Digital to enable digital strategy - July 1, 2008
Digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, has announced that it has been selected by Princeton University Press to enable the publisher's digital strategy. Ingram Digital will provide a comprehensive roster of services to the Press ranging from file digitisation and format conversion to digital asset… Read More
Elsevier announces eBook preservation agreement with Portico - June 30, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced an agreement with digital preservation service Portico to aid ScienceDirect, Elsevier's online STM platform, in addressing the challenges of eBook preservation. This agreement will ensure that eBooks on ScienceDirect content is protected for the future. Portico… Read More
Italian University Libraries announce participation in the Portico archive - June 27, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that 30 academic libraries in Italy have begun participation in the Portico archive. The Italian libraries join more than 460 libraries from 13 countries in supporting Portico and digital preservation. These libraries joined Portico as part of… Read More
Elsevier to implement plagiarism detection service from CrossRef - June 25, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will implement CrossCheck, the plagiarism detection service offered by CrossRef in collaboration with iParadigms. Elsevier has invested in CrossCheck to develop, pilot and implement, a single database of published articles enabling publishers to easily verify the originality of… Read More
Inspec Database attains new landmark - June 25, 2008
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that its bibliographic database, Inspec, has reached a landmark of over 10 million records. It was a journal article from IOP Publishing's Nanotechnology that pushed the database over the 10 million mark. Inspec… Read More
German research organisations set to launch digital information initiative - June 17, 2008
An alliance of German research organisations have agreed to launch a digital information initiative, which includes support for green OA, gold OA, and open data. The OA projects within the larger initiative will include new institutional and disciplinary repositories, the development of business models and financing for OA journals, pilot… Read More
