CrossRef has announced an update to its Digital Object Identifier (DOI) online display guidelines
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UK hopes intellectual property reforms will promote growth
The UK Government has accepted recommendations made by an independent review for modernising the country's intellectual property laws
BioMed Central brings open-access initiative to West Africa
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Kumasi, Ghana, is the first African Foundation Member to participate in 'Open Access Africa'
Springer announces winners of first API Challenge
Springer has chosen the first, second, and third place winners of its API Challenge 1.0
Archive charts birth of modern China
An online archive of 8,000 rare photographs of Chinese life between 1850 and 1950 has been launched through the Visualising China project
Biochemical Society appoints new publishing head
Caroline Black is the managing director of Portland Press
John Benjamins picks Publishing Technology's platform
The independent Dutch academic publisher John Benjamins has chosen Publishing Technology's pub2web platform to host its publications in one place for the first time
Nanyang Technological University picks EBSCO Discovery Service
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has selected EBSCO Discovery Service
JISC calls for openly-accessible metadata
A JISC-funded taskforce is arguing that unlocking the descriptive information about digital content, articles, books and research is the key to making it more useful
PLoS ONE is new SPARC Innovator
SPARC has named the Public Library of Science's PLoS ONE as the latest SPARC Innovator
OCLC and Research Libraries UK survey special collections in UK and Ireland
OCLC Research and Research Libraries UK are working together to gather data on special collections in research libraries in the UK and Ireland
Vital Source acquires VPG Integrated Media
Ingram Content Group's Vital Source business has grown its e-textbook offering with the acquisition of VPG Integrated Media