NEWS Publishers and British Library agree framework licence
The British Library and the International Association of Scientifi c, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) have agreed a framework licence agreement. This agreement, to be entered into directly between individual publishers and the British Library, governs the supply of copies of articles from the British Library’s Document Supply Service to
non-commercial and users via not-for-profi t libraries outside the UK. The UK Publishers Association is also recommending the framework licence agreement to its members.
Any articles to be supplied under this new service are solely for an end-user’s own private study or non-commercial research purposes. The terms of
the licence are distinct from the library’s service for the supply of articles for commercial purposes, and shall require end-users and not-for-profi t libraries to ensure that the differentiation between commercial and non-commercial use is actively monitored and differentiated. The framework licence agreement will start from 1 January 2012.
Digital Science supports open data project FigShare
Mark Hahnel has joined the Research Tools team of Digital Science to carry on his work developing FigShare, a service that enables researchers to publish and share their data. Hahnel began work on FigShare while he was a PhD student at Imperial College, UK because he was frustrated with the duplication and waste in research due to inadequate data openness and visibility. To help address this challenge, the service
allows researchers to publish their data in a citable, searchable and sharable manner. The data can come in the form of individual fi gures, datasets or video fi les and users are encouraged to share their negative data and unpublished results too. All data is persistently stored online under the most liberal Creative Commons licence, waiving copyright where possible. This allows scientists to access and share the
information from anywhere in the world with minimal friction. As product development manager for FigShare, Hahnel will continue to work on the service as an independent project, supported by Digital Science. Digital Science’s relationship with FigShare represents the company’s fi rst community-based, open- science project that will retain its autonomy whilst receiving support from the division.
Data centres are at the heart of UK data sharing
A new study by JISC and the Research Information Network (RIN) has found that data centres have been instrumental in developing a culture of data sharing among researchers. According to the study, making data available for reuse helps maximise the value of publicly-funded research in the UK by providing researchers
The multimedia news agency and information provider the Press Association (PA) has selected MarkLogic as the central content store, metadata repository, and syndication engine for all of its unstructured information. With MarkLogic as the Press Association’s new central content store and repository, the organisation
with essential references, avoiding duplication, and allowing repurposing of information for new enquiries. The study found that usage of data centres is high: most support thousands of researchers and millions of downloads each year. Data from every centre supports a variety of research activities, ranging from original
promises to be able to continue providing up-to-the minute progress on sporting events and breaking news, in a more fl exible, creative, and effi cient manner. The PA’s content library of text, images, video, and data, including structured and unstructured data, needs to be delivered to customers in
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research analysis, through combination and integration with other data, to reference purposes.
The report concludes that research data centres perform an important role by making high quality and reliable research results available in a way which makes it quick, easy and cheap for researchers to access.
Press Association picks MarkLogic to manage big, unstructured data
multiple formats. The company also has a huge archive of content in multiple data formats, including articles, pictures, and video, originating from different locations globally. MarkLogic Server can store this information in a schema- agnostic central repository, manage the content metadata, and make it easily accessible.
NEWS in brief
Burgundy to sell IET e-book collection across Europe Burgundy Information Services has signed an agreement with The Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) to provide sales expertise for its e-book collection to 11 countries across Europe. The representation includes Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia. The IET eBooks collection became available in September 2011 and features searchability at keyword, author, book or chapter level, either separately or together with all IET journals and conferences. The IET eBooks collection benefi ts from Inspec database indexing at chapter level and is DRM free, says the society publisher.
CrossRef revises DOI display guidelines CrossRef, the association of scholarly publishers that provides reference linking, has announced an update to its Digital Object Identifi er (DOI) online display guidelines. The new guidelines encourage CrossRef member publishers, affi liates, and others in the scholarly community to display CrossRef DOIs as full URLs in the online environment. To create a DOI URL, anyone can simply prepend
http://dx.doi.org/ to any DOI. The revised guidelines also include several examples of how CrossRef DOIs should be displayed in reference lists.
Web of Knowledge available in Algeria Thomson Reuters has announced a new three-year partnership with the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Research. The deal will bring Web of Knowledge to scientists and researchers at more than 60 institutions across Algeria.
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