Industry trends

Middlesex University in the UK has received funding to develop a medical image repository

The faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is adopting an open-access repository policy

President Obama has signed into law an act that makes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy permanent

The 2009 IPI Award will be given to Peter Norton. The announcement was made at the International Patent Information Conference and Exposition, IPI-ConfEx, held in Venice-Mestre in March

Microsoft and Creative Commons have announced an ontology add-on for Word 2007

The faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the USA has voted to make all faculty members' scholarly articles publically available online at no charge.

A new campaign is encouraging Canadian authors to use their campus digital repository to increase the use and impact of their research outputs

SPARC is asking all supporters of public access to oppose the reintroduction of the 'Fair Copyright in Research Works Act' in the USA.

The UK's EPSRC has decided to mandate open-access publication of the research that it funds

The executive director of the Association of Research Libraries has urged the US government to finance a large-scale digitisation project as a way to help the economy