Italian university libraries join Portico
5 July 2008
30 academic libraries in Italy are now participating in the Portico archive.
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
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EBSCO chief strategist elected chair of NISO
4 July 2008
EBSCO's Oliver Pesch will chair NISO for the 2008-2009 term.
UC Berkeley picks Millennium
3 July 2008
UC Berkeley Library will install Innovative's full Millennium integrated library system with the Electronic Resource Management module.
Developing countries get free access to SPIE Digital Library
1 July 2008
ICTP arranges free access to the SPIE Digital Library to researchers and students in more than 90 countries.
NLH goes live with WorldCat Link Manager
27 June 2008
The National Library for Health (NLH) implements an OpenURL link resolver service for NHS library holdings using OCLC’s WorldCat Link Manager.
Medical librarian wins award
21 June 2008
Medical librarian, Jan Weaver, is named the 2008 Information Professional of the Year by the SLA Australia and New Zealand Chapter.
Czech maths literature goes digital
16 June 2008
The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic has released a beta-version of The Czech Digital Mathematics Library.
Microsoft abandons book digitisation programme
30 May 2008
Microsoft is stopping its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and winding down its book-digitisation initiatives.
ARL publishes preservation statistics
28 May 2008
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published statistics about preservation efforts in 2005-06.
OCLC and Google sign agreement
22 May 2008
OCLC and Google sign agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services.
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This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli