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Daily Archives: September 2, 2016

The Keepers Registry – long term access to journal content

The Keepers Registry acts as a global monitor on the archiving arrangements for electronic journals. The Keepers Registry was developed by EDINA, the national data service centre at the University of Edinburgh, and the ISSN International Centre in Paris. It was first developed as outcome of the Jisc-funded Piloting an E-journals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS) project, and the beta service first launched in 2011. There is further background information on the PEPRS project website. The Keepers are the participating archiving agencies acting as stewards of digital content. There are currently twelve participating agencies. Each agency runs a programme for the archiving of e-journals and is making metadata on the journals in their programme available to The Keepers Registry. The ISSN Register, which contains bibliographic metadata for all journals which have been assigned an ISSN, is at the heart of The Keepers Registry. The ISSN Register is used both as an authority source for ISSNs and to enrich the supplied records.

The Registry has three main purposes:

  • To enable librarians and policy makers to find out who is looking after which e-journal, how and with what terms of access.
  • To highlight the e-journals which are still “at risk of loss”.
  • To showcase the organisations (the keepers) which act as digital shelves for access over the long term.

View the Keepers Registry blog for recent news and announcements, read our selected Bibliography, and view our Development Roadmap.”

Forrester – The US Federal Customer Experience Index, 2016

Despite Some Bright Spots, Agencies Fail To Meet The Administration’s CX Goals, August 30, 2016 [fee or subscription req’d]: “The White House requires federal agencies to provide customer experiences that match the best of the private sector’s. In this report, we measure agencies’ progress toward this goal by releasing federal Customer Experience Index (CX Index™)… Continue Reading

GAO Report – Aviation Safety

Aviation Safety: FAA’s Risk-Based Oversight for Repair Stations Could Benefit from Additional Airline Data and Performance Metrics [Reissued on September 2, 2016], GAO-16-679: Published: Jul 28, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 28, 2016. “The extent to which U.S. airlines contract out aircraft maintenance to domestic and foreign repair stations (as opposed to performing maintenance in-house) has… Continue Reading

FBI FOIA Release – Hillary R. Clinton documents

“Hillary Rodham Clinton served as U.S. Secretary of State from January 21, 2009 to February 1, 2013. The FBI conducted an investigation into allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure.” Via WSJ.com: “On Friday afternoon September 2, 2016], the Federal Bureau of Investigation… Continue Reading

FDA issues final rule on safety and effectiveness of antibacterial soaps

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a final rule establishing that over-the-counter (OTC) consumer antiseptic wash products containing certain active ingredients can no longer be marketed. Companies will no longer be able to market antibacterial washes with these ingredients because manufacturers did not demonstrate that the ingredients are both safe for long-term daily… Continue Reading