Italian university libraries join Portico
5 July 2008
30 academic libraries in Italy are now participating in the Portico archive.
Library news
EBSCO chief strategist elected chair of NISO
4 July 2008
EBSCO's Oliver Pesch will chair NISO for the 2008-2009 term.
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.
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Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working and re-thinking how we work
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
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Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, their benefits and limitations and what challenges remain
Charlie Rapple
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
