ScienceDirect Neuroscience archive

The University of Melbourne Library is pleased to announce the purchase of the ScienceDirect Neuroscience archive.

This resource includes over 70 journals now available back to volume one within ScienceDirect.  Many of these titles have never been available within the University library system.

Core titles in neuroscience include :

Brain Research [...]

Discover the wealth of Australian Newspapers online at the Australian Newspapers Beta service

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For those Australian libraries which have newspaper collections, this announcement is likely to be of interest.

On 25 July 2008, in collaboration with the State and Territory libraries, the National Library of Australia launched the Australian Newspapers Beta service which makes available [...]

A Comparative Study of e-Journal Archiving Solutions

http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/media/documents/jisc_collections/reports/e_journals_archiving_%20solutions_report_final_080518.pdf
The report is the result of a call by the JISC, issued in January 2008, for a Comparative Study of e-Journal Archiving Solutions. The Invitation to Tender asked for a report that “will be published for wide use by institutions to inform policies and investment in e-journal archiving solutions.” The ITT also [...]

Portico and Ithaka Release Results of Digital Preservation Survey of U.S. Library Directors

http://www.portico.org/comment/
The survey finds that a large majority of library directors across the spectrum strongly agree or agree that the potential loss of e-journals is unacceptable, and a significant majority believe their own institution has a responsibility to take action to prevent an intolerable loss of the scholarly record. Most larger libraries responding now support one [...]

UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme Evaluation Report

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/uklockssevaluation.pdf
The JISC-funded UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme has recently been evaluated and the report is now available on the JISC website at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/uklockssevaluation.pdf
LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an e-mail archiving system which enables institutions to keep licensed e-journal content on local servers so that in the event that the material is no longer accessible [...]

Company of Biologists completes Development archive

THE COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS ANNOUNCES THE COMPLETION OF THE ONLINE ARCHIVE
OF DEVELOPMENT
The Company of Biologists is delighted to announce the completion of the
process of digital retroconversion of the archives of its journal,
Development. The entire contents of Development’s predecessor, JEEM (the
Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology) is now freely available
online.
The complete archive of JEEM, from its [...]

LOCKSS APPROACH TO ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ARCHIVING

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/technology-watch/lockss/

INTRODUCTION
LOCKSS
FUNCTIONALITY
SELECTED IMPLEMENTATIONS
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Update on informaworld.com backfile access for subscribers

Dear T&F subscriber,
As you may be aware, at Taylor & Francis Group we have been digitising the back content of our journal portfolio, allowing Subscribers to strengthen their collections of scholarly material, whilst saving valuable shelf space and costs and allowing their users to benefit from increased functionality and ease of searching past material.
T&F’s current [...]

Royal Society of Chemistry to archive journals with Portico

The Royal Society of Chemistry, the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences, has reached an agreement with Portico to preserve its entire online journals collection of 26 titles. RSC Publishing is one of the world’s leading scientific publishers, offering an exceptional range of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, books, [...]

Emerald website upgrade and Emerald Backfiles launch

Dear Emerald website user,
As part of our continuous efforts to enhance our products and services, Emerald is pleased to announce two significant and exciting enhancements to our content and website:

The launch of Emerald Backfiles, the digitized archive of Emerald journal titles in business, management, library and information services, materials science, and [...]