Industry trends

Researchers in the USA have developed a mathematical method to rank scientific journals.

Nancy Lambert is to be awarded the 'International Patent Information (IPI) Award' for 2008.

Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes for greater worldwide access licence

The UK Data Archive introduces UKDA-store, a new data sharing service for researchers.

Interest in JPEG 2000 grows in the archival and library sectors, as institutions look for more efficient formats to store digital information.

The latest Webometrics Ranking of World Universities includes a new ranking of repositories.

SPARC has introduced a new discussion forum to address author rights.

Ukrainian researchers now have high-speed access to research resources.

Google could have a formidable competitor should the Mircosoft-Yahoo! merger go ahead.

University of Texas researchers develop search engine to curb plagiarism.