PsyArXiv preprints now discoverable in Europe PMC together with peer-reviewed research - May 11, 2021
PsyArXiv’s collection of more than 14,000 psychological sciences preprints has now been indexed in Europe PMC, an open science platform that enables access to a worldwide collection of 38.6 million life science publications and preprints. Since 2018, Europe PMC has… Read More
ARL welcomes increased investment in research and data sharing in reauthorization of National Science Foundation - April 16, 2021
Progress in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of public investment in basic scientific research and rapid sharing of data. The pandemic has also deepened existing inequality in the US and globally, which will require evidence-based policy-making to redress. The funding levels and policies included in reauthorization of… Read More
National Library of the Netherlands partners with Ex Libris for digital preservation - March 1, 2021
The National Library of the Netherlands (KBNL) has selected the Rosetta™ digital asset management and preservation solution from Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, to ensure its fast-growing digital collections remain safe for future generations. Rosetta is an end-to-end solution that enables the safe and secure collection, management… Read More
CLOCKSS announces participation of seven additional publishers - February 9, 2021
In a rapidly-changing world of digital publishing, agile solutions for safe preservation of academic publications are becoming more important than ever. CLOCKSS, the decentralised preservation archive that ensures that the digital assets of the community will survive intact, has announced the participation of seven additional publishers. … Read More
SAGE Publishing and scite sign indexing agreement to enhance discoverability through smart citations - January 21, 2021
Leading academic publisher SAGE Publishing and scite, an award-winning platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles, have partnered to index SAGE articles on scite to enable the creation of Smart Citations for enhanced discoverability and evaluation. Smart Citations show how a scientific paper… Read More
Research Square’s full-text COVID-19 preprints now indexed in Europe PMC - January 12, 2021
Research Square’s collection of more than 4,500 full-text COVID-19 preprints have been indexed in Europe PMC, an open-access repository of more than 1 million biomedical research works. The overall effort, jointly supported by Wellcome, the UK Medical Research Council, and Swiss National Science Foundation, expands Europe… Read More
ITHAKA extends JSTOR and Artstor access program - October 27, 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to disrupt higher education, ITHAKA, the not-for-profit organisation behind the journal archive JSTOR, is extending the JSTOR and Artstor expanded access program through June 30, 2021 to help institutions in their shift to remote teaching. Institutions… Read More
Portico to preserve scholarly content - October 16, 2020
Recent research has demonstrated that dozens of online-only Open Access journals are no longer available, while hundreds of others are inactive and at risk of being lost. Important scholarship may be lost to future generations of researchers if there is no preservation plan in place. … Read More
Helping to archive and preserve open access journals - September 25, 2020
A recent study by Laakso, Matthias and Jahn looked at the number of journals that had “vanished” from the internet. The study is a timely reminder of how vulnerable publishing outputs are. Although the scale of vanished journals is likely smaller than the study indicates, there is an urgent need… Read More
Jisc’s new preservation service to make data more secure; future-proofs UK university digital collections - September 8, 2020
Preservation, a new Jisc service, is helping institutions to keep their digital collections accessible and reusable, comply with multiple mandates and fulfil their statutory obligations. Developed with input from Jisc members and leading preservation system suppliers, Preservation is a tool that can… Read More
