November 19, 2009 – 12:51 pm
ACM partners with CLOCKSS, Portico to offer electronic archiving services
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that it is providing its institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to preserve their electronic resources. These services, provided by Portico and CLOCKSS, are aimed to help the scholarly community obtain reliable, secure, deliverable access [...]
November 18, 2009 – 1:53 pm
nbsp;http://www.quartos.org/
For the first time, digitized copies of rare early editions of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet have been compiled into a single online collection. The Shakespeare Quartos Archive www.quartos.org) makes digitized versions of the play drawn from libraries in the US and the UK freely available to researchers worldwide.
source: DigitalKoans
November 13, 2009 – 7:05 am
Community-governed archive cooperative Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (CLOCKSS) has announced that two new society publishers have recently joined its archive. The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society have signed agreements to join CLOCKSS and preserve their materials in its network of geographically and geopolitically distributed archive nodes.
source: Knowledgespeak
September 17, 2009 – 10:37 am
nbsp;http://www.crossref.org/01company/pr/new…
11 September 2009, Lynnfield, MA USA—CrossRef has collaborated with archiving organizations and publishers to ensure that several journals that have ceased publication remain linkable with the CrossRef DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) originally assigned to the articles. The titles include Auto/Biography and Graft from SAGE and Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention from Oxford University Press (OUP). [...]
September 11, 2009 – 10:51 am
nbsp;http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/poedc/
This digital archive was launched to accompany the 2009 Poe Bicentennial exhibition, “From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe,” a joint venture of the Ransom Center and the Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. The digital collection incorporates images of all Poe manuscripts and letters at the Ransom Center [...]
September 4, 2009 – 3:10 pm
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Europeana—Europe’s online library, museum and archive—opened in November 2008 as part of the Commission’s digital libraries initiative, aiming to make Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage accessible to all on the internet. The European Parliament and the Council have highlighted the importance of Europeana both as a showcase of the cultural heritage of the Member States [...]
nbsp;http://webarchives.cdlib.org/
Researchers and scholars now will be able to delve into archived Web sites captured by the California Digital Library’s Web Archiving Service (WAS). This new tool enables faculty, researchers and librarians to capture, curate and preserve Web sites, thus creating permanent archives available to researchers everywhere. The social history of our times is now being [...]
nbsp;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/docum…
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive project has digitised and made freely accessible over 4500 items relating to some of the major British poets of the First World War as well as a wealth of contextual material from the Imperial War Museum and National Archives (audio, video and photographs). In addition the project has [...]
nbsp;http://www.1911census.co.uk/
The 1911 census is a record of everyone who lived in England and Wales in 1911. It provides a unique snapshot of the lives of your ancestors. 1911census.co.uk brings this vast resource to you online, so that you can search the census simply and quickly to discover how your family lived in the past.
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United Kingdom, June 15, 2009- Emerald Group Publishing is pleased to announce its recent agreement with Portico. Portico provides a service to permanently preserve scholarly research in electronic form so that this information will remain accessible to scholars in future years. Portico will receive Emerald content via an electronic data feed, which they will convert [...]
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