Industry trends

There is a clear correlation between levels of usage of e-journals and research outcomes, according to studies done by the CIBER group at University…

Methodspace, SAGE's free public social network dedicated to the discussion of research methods online, attracted more than 1000 members in its first month

Five universities and a consortium in the USA plan to re-direct their current high-energy physics journal subscriptions to the SCOAP3 initiative

Elsevier has announced the winners of the Elsevier Grand Challenge, which invited researchers to prototype tools dealing with the increasing amount of online life…

OECD is urging the industry to adopt standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and linking to help overcome current problems with discovering and citing data

The UK's Research Information Network and Universities UK have provided advice on paying open-access publication charges

Middlesex University in the UK has received funding to develop a medical image repository

The faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is adopting an open-access repository policy

The faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the USA has voted to make all faculty members' scholarly…

Microsoft and Creative Commons have announced an ontology add-on for Word 2007

The 2009 IPI Award will be given to Peter Norton. The announcement was made at the International Patent Information Conference and Exposition, IPI-ConfEx, held…

President Obama has signed into law an act that makes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy permanent