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Japanese libraries join CLOCKSS initiative Two major academic library groups in Japan have joined the CLOCKSS archive, which aims to ensure preservation of libraries’ resources. The two groups are the Japanese Association of National University Libraries (JANUL) and the Private and Public University Libraries Consortia (PULC). JANUL consists of 92 libraries, while roughly 360 libraries are part of PULC. The National Institute of Informatics in Japan (NII), which is a CLOCKSS founding library and archive node, has been instrumental in bringing about this partnership and expanding the support for CLOCKSS to all academic libraries in Japan.
Scope helps IEEE build author-name database Scope eKnowledge Center (Scope) will help the IEEE to build a unique author name database. IEEE plans
to create a database of author data extracted from more than 2.5 million journal articles and conference proceedings contained in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The partnership with Scope is intended to clean up the existing metadata in order to ensure quality disambiguation and the highest level of excellence in the final database product. Scope says that it will take a ‘technology-assisted approach’ to achieve this, ‘engaging skilled professionals experienced in the nuances of researcher names and affiliation data while also employing software tools for data validation and enrichment’.
Innovative Interfaces endorses KBART Innovative Interfaces has endorsed the recommendations of the Knowledge Base and Related Tools (KBART) Working Group, a joint effort by NISO and the UK
Serials Group (UKSG) to improve data quality in the knowledge base supply chain. Innovative’s KBART compliance will be implemented in both WebBridge and WebBridge LR products. This should provide improved OpenURL linking to full- text article content from citations in external KBART-compliant reference databases.
SCOAP3 gets first Russian supporter The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), an intergovernmental scientific research organisation in Dubna, Russia, has joined SCOAP3. It is the first organisation in Russia to pledge financial support to the project to convert high-energy physics literature to open access. The SCOAP3 initiative is now getting closer to embarking on the next step – the establishment of an international governing board and a
call for tender to publishers in the field.
CAB Direct reaches nine million CAB Direct, CABI’s database platform that includes CAB Abstracts, has just published its nine millionth abstract. CAB Abstracts on CAB Direct gives researchers instant access to life-science records from 1973 onwards, with over 300,000 abstracts added each year.
University of Salford picks Syndetic for catalogue enrichment The University of Salford has chosen Syndetic Solutions to provide catalogue enrichments within its Talis Prism 2 library catalogue. This is said to be the first Prism 2 catalogue in the UK and Ireland to have successfully implemented Syndetic Solutions.
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