Industry trends

The US Department of Education has awarded more than $2 million in grant funds for international digitisation projects

The student Right to Research Coalition now represents more than five million students in the USA and around the world

SPARC has published a guide that reviews the sustainability of current and propective open-access publishers.

Researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about how they should communicate their research findings

Canadians will soon have free access to their own archive of health science literature

Researchers want to improve, not replace peer review, according to preliminary findings from an international surveys of authors and reviewers, the Peer Review Survey…

A multi-million pound investment from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council will boost European Life Sciences research

Teams from Loughborough University and University College London are to investigate the impact of 'Green Open Access' on repository users

Thirty partners from fourteen EU member states team up to launch a project that will provide 100 000 audio files to cultural website, Europeana.eu

In less than six months after its launch, research methods network, 'Methodspace', has more than 2000 members

A new program from Google Books allows rightsholders to make their Creative Commons-licensed books available for the public to download, use, remix and share

Although many projects in the not-for-profit sector attempt to generate some revenue through subscription, pay-per-view and a range of licensing arrangements, their income still…