LION Literature Database Moves to New Platform, SCOAP3 Broadens Open Access
January 10, 2014
Literature Online Moves to ProQuest
Literature Online (LION), a literature database, has moved to the ProQuest platform. Users will still be able to access the old platform on Chadwyck-Healey through March 31.
My Archive accounts on Literature Online will not be migrated. If you or your researchers have a My Archive account, you will need to extract all data and transfer it to a new account in the new version of the database. ProQuest has prepared instructional materials about the new platform, and has scheduled a series of training sessions as well.
Please contact the UC Merced Library with any questions.
SCOAP3 Widens Open Access in Particle Physics Research
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) initiative began Jan. 1.
SCOAP3 will make a large number of scientific articles in the field of high-energy physics widely available via open access. This will not cost authors anything and they will retain copyright. Additionally, licenses will enable wide reuse of information. CERN notes this is the largest scale global open-access initiative ever built, and involves an international collaboration of more than 1,000 libraries, library consortia and research organizations.
UC libraries helped bring SCOAP3 to life, and the California Digital Library (CDL) has signed an MOU confirming UC’s participation as a SCOAP3 partner. UC libraries will serve as archival and access repositories for articles.
More information can be found in this SCOAP3 press release or by contacting the UC Merced Library.
