EBSCO chief strategist elected chair of NISO
4 July 2008
EBSCO's Oliver Pesch will chair NISO for the 2008-2009 term.
James Gray assesses the situation and how it can be addressed
Library news
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.
Trinity University selects Innovative
21 May 2008
Trinity University's Elizabeth Huth Coates Library selects Innovative for its digital library service.
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Matt Balara explains how an established publisher, De Gruyter, completed an extraordinary transformation
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From rapid disease information to a way to promote and share regional knowledge in multiple languages, preprints have come into their own in recent years. Siân Harris finds out more
Céline Richard
Céline Richard explains what the Large Hadron Collider has taught us about the importance of open access research
Ivy Cavendish
Ivy Cavendish tells the inspirational tale behind the formation of a writing tool for researchers, TooWrite
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There is a continuing need for the sorts of insights and judgements that only a person can bring, writes David Stuart
Tasha Mellins-Cohen
COUNTER reports have an integral role to play in our wider scholarly communication system, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Tony Roche
Emerald Publishing CEO Tony Roche talks of his career in scholarly publishing and a love of eastern cuisine
Alicia Wise
Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS executive director, reflects on her career and explains the importance of robustly preserving academic resources
Heather Staines
Heather Staines sums up proceedings at this year's Researcher to Reader conference
