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Research institutions back US open-access bill

04 May 2010

The provosts and presidents of 27 major private and public research institutions in the USA have voiced their support for the new Federal Research Public Access Act

IOP Publishing announces new managing director

04 May 2010

Steven Hall will be the new managing director of IOP Publishing, the publishing arm of the UK's Institute of Physics

Pressure to publish impacts research quality

28 April 2010

The growing pressure to produce publishable results can adversely impact the quality of scientific research, according to new EU-funded research published in the journal PLoS ONE

Research reveals high level of unpublished clinical data

28 April 2010

Research in the journal Trials reveals that nearly 20 per cent of clinical trials into strokes are not published in full

Software speeds up peer-review analysis

21 April 2010

iD8 Publishing Services is speeding up the process for classifying, sorting and analysing peer reviews using the qualitative data analysis software NVivo 8

Project studies mobile digital publishing in education

20 April 2010

A three-year research project will look into transforming education through digital publishing and mobile devices

US congress introduces Federal Research Public Access Act

19 April 2010

The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2010 (FRPAA) has been introduced in the US House of Representatives

OUP announces new head of academic publishing

16 April 2010

Oxford University Press restructures academic and research publishing

Germany agrees archive licence with ASCO

16 April 2010

Journal of Clinical Oncology legacy content is now available to universities, libraries and research institutions in Germany

The Czech Republic joins SCOAP3

16 April 2010

The Czech National Technical Library has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of the Czech Republic

China signs up to SAGE backfiles

15 April 2010

SAGE and the National Library of China agree a deal for access to SAGE's backfile collection

EBSCO buys NetLibrary

18 March 2010

EBSCO is buying the OCLC NetLibrary Division, as well as the rights to license some vendor-owned databases currently available through the OCLC FirstSearch service

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