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Researchers want to improve, not replace peer review, according to preliminary findings from an international surveys of authors and reviewers, the Peer Review Survey 2009

A multi-million pound investment from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council will boost European Life Sciences research

Teams from Loughborough University and University College London are to investigate the impact of 'Green Open Access' on repository users

Thirty partners from fourteen EU member states team up to launch a project that will provide 100 000 audio files to cultural website, Europeana.eu

A new program from Google Books allows rightsholders to make their Creative Commons-licensed books available for the public to download, use, remix and share

In less than six months after its launch, research methods network, 'Methodspace', has more than 2000 members

The InChI Trust is launching this week with the aim of expanding and developing the InChI open-source chemical structure representation algorithm

Although many projects in the not-for-profit sector attempt to generate some revenue through subscription, pay-per-view and a range of licensing arrangements, their income still depends heavily on support from the institutions that host them

There has been a dramatic rise in research output by scientists in the developing world since 2002, according to the partners of Research4Life

The Netherlands' SURFdirect and Creative Commons Netherlands recommend the most liberal Creative Commons licence for reuse of material in the context of education and research