Industry trends

The UK's minister of state for universities and science has spoken in favour of sustainable open access

FundRef pilot aims to standardise funding source information for scholarly publications

Researchers in the Netherlands are developing an international quality test for young open-access journals

CrossRef has launched the CrossMark update identification service to alert researchers to important changes that may occur to published scholarly content and highlight important publication record information

Executives from news media, publishing, TV, film, music, IT and internet media businesses are working with existing standards and licensing organisations on a cross-media global project that they hope will result in better and easier management of copyright in the online world

The Collections Trust has secured major European Commission investment to help museums, archives and libraries share their collections online safely and sustainably

Groups call for reform after survey finds UK lags other developed nations in approach to copyright