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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
