Industry trends

STM releases report to clarify position on authors' rights.

The American Diabetes Association has reached an agreement with Conference Archives to deliver the ADA's event knowledge to a global audience through Ekatius.

The digital divide between the South Caucasus countries and Europe is bridged with a new regional high-speed network and GEANT2 link.

Traditional academic publishers are changing their attitudes to copyright and the deposit of articles in a publicly-accessible repository.

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.