EPSRC launches Digital Repositories e-Science Network - June 17, 2008
The UK's Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has launched the Digital Repositories e-Science Network (DReSNet). The network is expected to leverage the synergy between two fields of technology and technique, e-science and digital repositories. The digital material generated from and used by academic and… Read More
SCONUL conference examines importance of research data management - June 16, 2008
The management and preservation of research data moved centre stage at the recently held SCONUL conference in Edinburgh. The annual gathering of senior librarians heard from a number of speakers about the information needs of the research community and in particular the role of libraries in managing the increasing amounts… Read More
RIN report on the publication and quality assurance of research data outputs - June 11, 2008
The UK's Research Information Network (RIN), has set out the results of a project, supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and JISC, to investigate the publication and quality assurance of research data. The report, titled 'To Share or not to Share: Publication and Quality… Read More
Varied views on efficacy of HINARI programme in boosting research - June 10, 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has recently claimed that the WHO HINARI programme leads to a significant increase in the number of publications from researchers in the qualifying countries. The programme supports the provision of free access to articles made available by collaborating publishers to registered organisations… Read More
Portico and Ithaka release results of Digital Preservation Survey of US library directors - June 9, 2008
In September 2005, library directors from 17 universities and colleges met to discuss the current state of electronic journal preservation and endorsed a statement calling for 'Urgent Action' to preserve scholarly e-journals. Over two years later in January 2008, Portico and Ithaka invited 1,371 library directors… Read More
OA articles published in Oxford Open to be deposited in PubMed Central free of cost - June 6, 2008
The Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced that open access (OA) articles published in over 50 journals in the Oxford Open initiative will now automatically be deposited in PubMed Central (PMC). PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at… Read More
Dutch academic repositories collection DAREnet integrated into NARCIS - June 5, 2008
DAREnet, the network of academic repositories in the Netherlands, is now integrated into scientific portal NARCIS (www.narcis.info). The website www.darenet.nl, developed by SURFfoundation, will now be part of NARCIS. The scientific portal offers, amongst others, access to tens… Read More
Council of Europe selects ArchivalWare digital archiving solution - June 4, 2008
The Council of Europe has reportedly selected the ArchivalWare digital archiving solution to replace its existing Hyperion digital media archive. ArchivalWare is a web-based, full-text search and retrieval system for the management of digital archive collections. Particular strengths include an outstanding retrieval capability combined with the… Read More
Portico, Equinox Publishing sign digital preservation deal - May 30, 2008
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Equinox Publishing to preserve its entire digital journals collection of 28 titles. Equinox Publishing publishes books and journals on a variety of subjects for an academic audience. Through this… Read More
New beta version of the ranking Web of World Repositories now available - May 27, 2008
Webometrics has announced an updated new beta version of the ranking of world repositories. In the latest ranking, the top five repositories in descending order are arXiv, SSRN, RePEc, E-LIS, and Citeseer. New repositories have been added, like PubMedCentral that was inadvertently missed from the previous edition. Other repositories not… Read More
