Library news

From 6 April six major libraries in the UK and Ireland will have the right to collect, preserve and provide long-term access to a copy of every UK electronic publication

Universities in Australasia are amongst the first to offer access to Springer Book Archives to students, faculty and researchers

Christus Spohn Health Sciences Library has converted from its EOS web-based library automation system to the Soutron Global Library and Information Management solution

The British Library selects TSO's OpenUp semantic platform to publish its linked open data

Soutron Global has agreed a technology partnership that will allow it to integrate EBSCO Discovery Services with Soutron's library and knowledge management systems

BioMed Central's Open Repository has welcomed its first South American client, the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, based in Lima, Peru

A new white paper published by Springer has revealed a significant increase in e-book pages viewed and a decrease in pages printed

The National Information Standards Organization has published maintenance revisions of two standards

The Blanchester and Wornstaff Memorial public libraries have gone live on Evergreen, making a total of eight library systems on the new Consortium of Ohio Libraries

Dan Cohen has been appointed as founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America