Industry trends

Peerage of Science has signed a membership agreement with ORCID

PLOS has launched the Accelerating Science Award Program to recognise the use of scientific research, published through open access, which has led to innovations in any field that benefit society

The Library Copyright Alliance has filed a 'friend of the court' brief in support of Georgia State University in response to legal action by a group of publishers over copyright

Partners in 11 countries have joined forces to launch the first pan-European MOOCs (massive open online courses) initiative

The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2013 finds that, although the USA is still the dominant player in the scientific world, new centres of science are emerging

Industry leaders in Ireland have announced a collaboration to develop an cross-archival semantic content discovery platform to open up the archives of RTE, Ireland's national television and radio broadcaster

Canada's writers and publishers are taking a stand against what they describe as damaging interpretations of fair dealing by the education sector

The Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and Association of Research Libraries have called on the research university community to provide input to the US Government for increasing access to the results of federally-funded research

Ithaka S+R has conducted its fifth survey of faculty members at four-year colleges and universities in the USA