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Microsoft and Creative Commons add ontologies to Word
Microsoft and Creative Commons have announced an ontology add-on for Word 2007
Peter Norton wins IPI Award
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 in Venice-Mestre in March
US act protects NIH access policy
President Obama has signed into law an act that makes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy permanent
Engineering librarian wins library research award
William H. Mischo has won the 2009 Kilgour Award
Programme boosts Canadian research reach
A new campaign is encouraging Canadian authors to use their campus digital repository to increase the use and impact of their research outputs
Australia's union catalogue synchronises with WorldCat
OCLC's database synchronisation capability is keeping the Australian National Bibliographic Database synchronised with WorldCat
Shared digital library widens Scottish access to journals
Scotland's university researchers will benefit from a shared digital library that should widen access to over 1,500 specialist journals and publications
University of Bradford picks Innovative
The University of Bradford in the UK has chosen Innovative Interfaces as the supplier for several of its library system tools.
Hindawi's monthly submissions exceed 1000
Egypt-based open-access publisher Hindawi received more than 1000 manuscript submissions to its open-access journal collection for the first time in February 2009.
Open-access supporters oppose US bill
SPARC is asking all supporters of public access to oppose the reintroduction of the 'Fair Copyright in Research Works Act' in the USA.
Library-association statement sets out economic concerns
The Association of Research Libraries has released a statement about the effects of the current global economic crisis on publishing and library subscriptions