The Wayne State University Libraries have achieved real-time acquisition of user statistics from within Innovative Interfaces' electronic resource management system.
Chongqing Library in China has chosen the ALEPH 500 integrated library system from Ex Libris.
Lynne Brindley, chief executive of The British Library, has become the new chair of The European Library Management Board.
ProQuest CSA and Oxford University Library Services will digitise more than 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.
The National Library of New Zealand will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to WorldCat.
The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and Swets have signed the first cross-country consortia agreement with the Southern European Library Link (SELL).
A survey of major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies has revealed that electronic journals play a key role in communicating the research results of such companies.
Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.
Princeton University, USA, has joined the Google Library Project and will digitise approximately one million public-domain books from its collections.
Ovid and Elsevier are providing researchers across Germany with access to scientific journal and database archives.
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
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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
