Industry trends

Subscription services company Swets has bought Boekhandel E. Frencken, a Netherlands-based book and journal seller.

Creative Commons has launched a study into 'noncommercial use' of content

The SCOAP3 consortium, which is pushing for open access to published high-energy physics research, has announced new partners.

Information professions including librarianship, archives, publishing and journalism could become increasingly disconnected from their users. This is one of the conclusions of a new book edited by David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands.

The UK PubMed Central website has received funding for further development over the next three years.

Students prefer to read e-textbooks online but interactivity is not a major issue for them, according to the first survey of the UK's e-book observatory

The first international Open Access Day will be held on 14 October 2008

Elsevier Foundation grants help researchers in developing countries and the academic workplace.

The Max Planck Society (MPS) has signed a deal with the Public Library of Science (PLoS) to centrally fund the publication fees of MPS scientists

Gladstone scientists create Wikipathways to foster research collaboration.