The Open Archives Initiative announces beta version of Object Reuse and Exchange specifications as part of its OAI-ORE project.
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Wiley-Blackwell signs new national backfile licences
15 June 2008
Wiley-Blackwell completes agreements to provide access to nearly 400 journal backfiles to research institutions in Germany.
Research data could become inaccessible
11 June 2008
The constraints are as significant as the opportunities when it comes to publishing, locating and accessing research data, according to a new report.
Student plagiarism study finds consensus
10 June 2008
A new report shows that there are clusters of consensus in dealing with student plagiarism.
Social applications help academics share information
10 June 2008
2collab survey reveals scientists and researchers are 'all business' when it comes to social applications.
Competition prompts information innovation in life-sciences
08 June 2008
Elsevier invites the scientific community to innovate how life-sciences information is used in online text databases.
Wiley chooses LibreDigital
07 June 2008
Wiley partners with LibreDigital to deliver e-book, custom content, and discovery tools.
New Nielsen figures published
06 June 2008
Nielsen Book announces UK book production figures for 2007
SAGE buys CQ Press
01 June 2008
CQ Press, the book-publishing unit of Washington-based Congressional Quarterly, has been sold to SAGE.
Ingram acquires assets of Audiofy Corporation
31 May 2008
Ingram Digital acquires the iofy digital audiobook platform from Audiofy Corporation.
Microsoft abandons book digitisation programme
30 May 2008
Microsoft is stopping its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and winding down its book-digitisation initiatives.
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