Stephen Due has been named the 2007 Information Professional of the Year by the SLA Australia/-New Zealand Chapter.
Thomson Scientific is seeking applicants from Europe, the
Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Africa for its annual Roger K. Summit International Scholarship.
Innovative Interfaces has announced two new customers for its Millennium integrated library management system.
In the first quarter of 2007, 18 Asian institutions chose Scopus as the preferred database for their university library.
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) has announced a collective agreement to digitise up to 10 million volumes as part of the Google Book Search project.
Book and library systems must be ready for 13-digit ISBNs by early next year, when ISBNs with a prefix of 979 start to be assigned.
Scopus is being made available to 44 of Brazil's leading universities and research institutes.
The University of Manchester has used Talis Keystone to integrate its library services within its campus uPortal.
The Royal Library of Denmark has chosen Ex Libris' Primo discovery and delivery product as the interface to all local and remote scholarly information resources.
Medical researchers and doctors in training regularly use online journals, even if they have to do so from their local internet cafe, according to new research published in BMC Health Services Research.
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
Chris Smith
Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
Rossana Morriello
Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
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
