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Scopus is being made available to 44 of Brazil's leading universities and research institutes.

Medical researchers and doctors in training regularly use online journals, even if they have to do so from their local internet cafe, according to…

The Wayne State University Libraries have achieved real-time acquisition of user statistics from within Innovative Interfaces' electronic resource management system.

Chongqing Library in China has chosen the ALEPH 500 integrated library system from Ex Libris.

Lynne Brindley, chief executive of The British Library, has become the new chair of The European Library Management Board.

The National Library of New Zealand will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to WorldCat.

ProQuest CSA and Oxford University Library Services will digitise more than 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.

The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and Swets have signed the first cross-country consortia agreement with the Southern European Library Link (SELL).

Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.

A survey of major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies has revealed that electronic journals play a key role in communicating the research results of such…

The New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library has licensed Wiley's peer-reviewed journals.

Ovid and Elsevier are providing researchers across Germany with access to scientific journal and database archives.