Resources

Bloomsbury Fashion Central and Bloomsbury Design Library have been updated with new featured themes that are now live. Their Featured Content brings together free articles, book chapters, business cases, object images and videos on their respective topics of Menswear: Meaning, Making and Masculinity and Modernism and Design guiding users to discover a variety of helpful content types across formats while supporting teaching or research.

JSTOR has joined the Opening the Future program as a hosting partner for Open Access ebooks published by Central European University Press and Liverpool University Press. These ebooks will be freely available on JSTOR, in addition to the publishers’ websites and other platforms offering Open Access ebooks. Making the titles available on multiple platforms ensures that users can discover and access this scholarship through their preferred research workflows.

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has launched a new research platform using the F1000 open access publishing model to help expedite the health benefits from publicly funded research, allowing researchers to quickly share and build on data and results.

Together with its partners in research, FIZ Karlsruhe develops an innovative information infrastructure for patent information to be used by scientists. Entirely new: a patent-centered knowledge graph.

GOBI Library Solutions now supports e-books on the Cairn.info platform, making more than 13,000 DRM-free title-by-title social sciences and humanities French eBooks available through GOBI. All titles on the Cairn.info platform offer DRM-free, unlimited simultaneous user access and are available worldwide.

This new Recommended Practice establishes guidelines for metadata for video and audio assets including administrative metadata, semantic metadata, technical metadata, rights metadata and accessibility metadata.

The Company of Biologists, a leading not-for-profit publisher, is now providing full-text articles for distribution to UK institutional repositories using Jisc’s Publications Router service.

Portico announced more than 1,000 participating publishers who, along with more than 1,000 participating libraries, allow them to meet their mission of ensuring that scholarly content remains usable, authentic, discoverable, and accessible. Such broad community support and collaboration allows us to provide long-term digital preservation in a cost-effective and sustainable way.

Index to Current Urban Documents contains more than 5 million pages of reports and research statistics published since 1972 by local government agencies, civic organizations, research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in hundreds of major North American cities.

AIP Publishing has announced the expansion of its partnership with the CLOCKSS digital archive to start preserving its wide library of digital books. The agreement builds upon AIP Publishing’s existing partnership through which the publisher’s array of journals are digitally preserved.