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Project aims to 'spruce up' preservation

18 January 2012
Leeds University Library in the UK has launched the Sustainable PReservation Using Community Engagement (SPRUCE) project

Fellowship programme helps rare-books scholars

18 January 2012
Elsevier and the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Libraries have established a fellowship programme to enable rare-books scholars to study 16th-18th century scientific scholarship and publishing

Elsevier acquires life-sciences content-management business

18 January 2012

Copyright Clearance Center acquires Pubget

18 January 2012

UK national library catalogue nears completion

17 January 2012

National Library of France picks EBSCO Discovery Service

17 January 2012

American Society for Microbiology works with TEMIS

17 January 2012

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Analysis & opinion

Partnership brings library customers to Mendeley

17 January 2012
Swets and Mendeley have struck a partnership that will integrate the details of institutional library holdings with the Mendeley tool for organising research resources, writes Sian Harris

The constant innovator

17 January 2012
Sometimes libraries are perceived as resistant to change but in fact they are often at the forefront of innovation, argues Ben Showers of JISC

Geospatial data gathering bears fruit

11 January 2012
Matthew Dovey examines the rise in academic geo-apps and the value of crowd sourcing in gathering data for research