Library news

Remote Australian library wins $1 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Microsoft, for providing technology to indigenous communities

The Fraunhofer Society selects Thomson Scientific's research database to help members win grants

Touted as a model of library automation in the Middle East, Cairo University has chosen the so-called Millenium platform, designed by US library systems provider Innovative, to boost operations.

Global library federations urge government intervention as Iraqi librarians and national archives placed at risk from US and Iraq troops

The Council of Australian University Librarians has joined forces with Sage to offer online access to more than 450 of the publisher's journals

Cornell University Library, US, is the newest partner in the Google Book Search Library Project

Following 'soaring' article charges, Yale University Science Libraries drop BioMed Central's open access service while the publisher claims it offers 'excellent value for money'

University librarians see a bright future for electronic books in academia but many challenges including licensing and access issues must be addressed first

Knovel and JISC Collections join forces to provide science and technology resources to UK universities and colleges

HP and the MIT Libraries have formed a non-profit organisation that will support the growing community of institutions that use the open-source DSpace software.