Archives and backfiles

ConTech 2022 will be a hybrid event taking place on the 29 and 30 November with the physical event once again being held at The Marriott Regent’s Park, London.

Open science is important, but it is also hard. Unfortunately, 'hard' has often meant that scientific quality checks are both slow and inadequate, falling in an unsatisfactory middle ground between two opposing goals

The University of Exeter has become the first European university to purchase Adam Matthew's entire digital primary source portfolio of more than 100 modules

ProQuest has launched the first product in its ProQuest One initiative

Libraries are getting access to thousands of BBC academic titles following an expanded agreement between ProQuest and BBC Learning

Copyright Clearance Center has announced the release of RightFind Insight, a scientific research solution

Digital Science has launched Dimensions, a new platform that aims to democratise and transform scholarly search

ProQuest is adding 24 primary sources to its offering through the Jisc Digital archival collections group purchasing pilot, following the adoption of its databases by 20 universities

De Gruyter is to digitise its entire backlist, dating back to 1749

 Gale, a library resource provider and a Cengage company, has announced the launch of the final modules of its Early Arabic Printed Books archive for the international higher education market.
 
Early Arabic Printed Books features a number of technological innovations pioneered by Gale to ensure scholars in Arabic-speaking countries and beyond can research the range of content, including interfaces in Arabic and European languages, right-to-left-read navigation of Arabic texts, an embedded Arabic keyboard and newly developed optical character recognition software.