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Google and KB team up on book digitisation
The National Library of the Netherlands has begun a partnership with Google Book Search to digitise more than 160,000 public domain books
Southampton department releases public data in open linked data format
The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton has become the UK's first university department to release all its public data in open linked data format for public reuse
Elsevier tests new peer-review approach
Elsevier is piloting a new peer-review programme for Chemical Physics Letters where reviewers can choose which articles they would like to review
NISO launches new standards projects
The National Information Standards Organization has launched six new standard or recommended practice development projects in the past six months
CRL works with British Library on thesis access
Center for Research Libraries is working with the British Library to provide web access to dissertations and theses through the EThOS database
Bodleian Libraries get £1.5 million for digitisation
A gift of £1.5 million has been given to the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford to support library digitisation initiatives and digital imaging facilities
Queen honours IOP Publishing's MD
Jerry Cowhig, managing director of IOP Publishing, has been made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) 'for services to science' in the Queen's Birthday Honours list
Google will scan Austrian books
Austria's national library has struck a 30-million-euro deal with Google to digitise 400,000 copyright-free books, spanning 400 years of European history
Elsevier buys Collexis
Elsevier has bought Collexis Holdings, which develops semantic technology and knowledge discovery software
OA uptake still small, says OUP study
Uptake of the open-access option on Oxford Journals' papers is still small five years after the publishers' Oxford Open initiative first launched
First organisations endorse KBART recommendations
The American Institute of Physics, Ex Libris, Serials Solutions and OCLC are the first organisations have endorsed the Phase I recommendations of the KBART Working Group