Library news

British Library partners with Amazon on book project

24 February 2010
A deal between the British Library and Amazon will make 65,000 largely out-of-print 19th century titles available on Amazon via print-on-demand or as free downloads on Kindle

Study examines how libraries help doctoral students

24 February 2010
A collaborative study between the libraries at Cornell University and Columbia University aims to discover if the library can help doctoral students in the humanities finish their degrees

Project captures voices of science

23 February 2010
The British Library is launching an electronic collection giving an oral history of British science

Royal Holloway sets open-access mandate

19 February 2010
Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London will soon be required to deposit copies of their research in the college's open-access repository

Swiss metacatalogue launches

17 February 2010
A beta version of Switzerland's next-generation meta-catalogue, SwissBib, has been launched