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Third Harvard school votes for open-access
The faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the USA has voted to make all faculty members' scholarly articles publically available online at no charge.
Ovid supplies Transplant Library Database to medical schools in England
Ovid has struck a deal with the UK's Department of Health to give medical students, faculty, and clinicians access to evidence-based organ transplantation research via the OvidSP platform
Gale and YBP Library Services agree on e-book distribution
YBP Library Services will distribute Gale's e-books to academic libraries
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.