Archive for November, 2006

Call for interest - U.S. government agency techical report digitzation project

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Mel DeSart and Maliaca Oxnam have recently posted a call for interest for their U.S. government agency techical report digitzation project.
Excerpt: ‘The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA - www.gwla.org) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL - www.crl.edu) are collaborating on a pilot project to ascertain both the practicality of and impediments to digitizing and […]

Portico signs archiving agreement with the American Physical Society

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Knowledgespeak reported an agreement betweein Portico and Americaln Physical Society to archive its electronic journals such as Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, and Review of Modern Physics.
Excerpt: ‘Under the deal, Portico will preserve APS’ Physical Review archival files, dating back to 1893, for future scholars, researchers, and students. This includes its collection of 9 journals - Physical […]

NSF and ARL Team on Digital Data Stewardship Workshop

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

HPCWire, Leading Source for Global News and Information Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing, recently published a report on Digital Data Stewardship Workshop conducted jointly by NSF and ARL.
Excerpt from this article: ‘The workshop brought together a diverse group of stakeholders in the digital data world including participants from the library community – traditional experts […]

Biomicrofluidics — first Open Access journal from AIP

Monday, November 13th, 2006

Biomicrofluidicsis is the first Open Access journal published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). The online-only journal provides an interdisciplinary, rapid-publication environment for the dissemination of research from diverse fields, including engineering, physics, materials science, chemistry, and biology. From the press release:
Organized into four issues per year, Biomicrofluidics will […]

Study examines how OA materials may replace journal subscriptions

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Knowledgespeak reports a study on Open Access journals and its possible impact on journal subscriptions.
Excerpt: ‘A study of librarian purchasing preferences commissioned by the Publishing Research Consortium (PRC), UK, has revealed the factors that could prompt a librarian to substitute journal subscriptions with open access (OA) materials. According to the study titled ‘Self-Archiving and Journal Subscriptions: […]

Open Access publishing in physics gains momentum

Friday, November 10th, 2006

Cordis News reports, “ As if inventing the World-Wide Web were not revolutionary enough, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is now on its way to unleashing a paradigm shift in the world of academic publishing.
For the first time ever, an entire scientific field is exploring the possibility of converting its reader-paid journals into an […]

Scirus Partners with Indian Institute of Science

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Amsterdam, November 1st, 2006 – Elsevier today announced that Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, has partnered with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to index their two institutional repositories, ePrints@IISc and etd@IISc. The former is an eprints archiving facility for the IISc research community and the latter a digital repository of theses and dissertations […]