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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

Libraries expect e-book growth

18 March 2010

Librarians expect significant growth in e-book acquisitions, according to HighWire's recent 'eBooks Librarian Survey'

AIP opens Chinese office

15 March 2010

The American Institute of Physics is opening an office in Beijing

Germany agrees national e-book licence with Springer

15 March 2010

The German National Library of Science and Technology and the German National Library of Medicine have signed an extensive agreement for access to Springer eBooks

SPARC guide explores OA funds

15 March 2010

SPARC has released a guide and supporting web resource exploring campus-based open-access publishing funds

Bloomberg and Wiley strike book publishing alliance

12 March 2010

Wiley will be the exclusive global publisher of Bloomberg and Bloomberg BusinessWeek-branded books

Austrian government invests in digital archiving

12 March 2010

The Austrian Federal Chancellery is investing 4.58 million euros in a cross-government digital archiving solution

Google is important to Chinese scientists, says study

25 February 2010

More than three-quarters of Chinese scientists use Google as the primary search engine for their research

Study examines how libraries help doctoral students

24 February 2010

A collaborative study between the libraries at Cornell University and Columbia University aims to discover if the library can help doctoral students in the humanities finish their degrees

British Library partners with Amazon on book project

24 February 2010

A deal between the British Library and Amazon will make 65,000 largely out-of-print 19th century titles available on Amazon via print-on-demand or as free downloads on Kindle

Project captures voices of science

23 February 2010

The British Library is launching an electronic collection giving an oral history of British science

Royal Holloway sets open-access mandate

19 February 2010

Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London will soon be required to deposit copies of their research in the college's open-access repository

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