Cambridge University Press academic and scholarly books will become accessible to people with print disabilities thanks to a new licensing deal with Bookshare
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Digital time capsule hidden in Swiss Alps
The Planets project has deposited a time capsule containing a record of the 'Digital Genome' inside Swiss Fort Knox - a high security digital storage facility hidden deep in the Swiss Alps
Oceanography library partners with Google
Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, described as the world's largest oceanography library, have been digitised and are being made publically-accessible
OUP supplies journals to Indian colleges
OUP supplies research journals to Indian colleges
AMA picks new VP of periodic publications
Elizabeth Jones is the new senior vice president of periodic publications at the American Medical Association
TEMIS opens UK office
Text analytics provider TEMIS is opening a UK office to better serve publishing and life sciences clients
Gale and De Gruyter agree on distribution
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will distribute De Gruyter periodicals through a number of its academic resources
RCN Publishing appoints new MD
The Royal College of Nursing has appointed Rhonda Oliver as the new managing director/publisher at RCN Publishing
Google Books settlement could violate international law
The proposed Google Books settlement could violate international laws and treaties, argues new analysis from the Open Book Alliance
Thieme joins CLOCKSS
Thieme Publishing Group has joined CLOCKSS, a non-profit initiative to preserve academic digital content
Italian universities gets Scopus access
Researchers in 60 Italian universities get access to Elsevier's abstract and citation database in new deal
Thomson Reuters acquires Brazilian legal publisher
Thomson Reuters has acquired Revista dos Tribunais