Across the world publishers and search engines have resorted to court cases to resolve disputes over how content is used. Siân Harris investigates a new project that hopes to solve this problem
Blackwell Books Online has been certified as providing COUNTER-compliant usage data.
Private equity firm Bridgepoint Capital Limited is buying the Education division of Wolters Kluwer.
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, is opening a representative office in China.
German researchers will have access to all Emerald journals between 1994 and 2005 thanks to a new agreement between the publisher and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Elsevier has bought the Beilstein Database, the world's largest compilation of chemical facts in the field of organic chemistry.
The publishing services division of Apex CoVantage has been selected to create a multi-million page digital archive of medical journals for a major association.
The new publishing services company formed from the merger of Ingenta and VISTA International will be listed on the AIM stock exchange from tomorrow.
Four national ICT bodies have begun a multinational tender process to explore with publishers the possibility of cross-border licensing arrangements.
Hindawi Publishing has changed its last two subscription-based journals to an open-access publishing model.
James Molloy
James Molloy reflects on the many different strands of his role as a librarian
Ted Slater and James Malone
Siloed data has a wide-reaching impact, say Ted Slater and James Malone
The last decade promised a revolution but high prices have stirred up a rebellion
Michele Avissar-Whiting
Michele Avissar-Whiting outlines the course of post-pandemic preprinting
Marian Asantewah Nkansah
Research Information meets award-winning Ghanaian researcher Marian Asantewah Nkansah
Eric Merkel-Sobotta
Eric Merkel-Sobotta discusses the APE conference, the Berlin Institute for Scholarly Publishing, and a great love of horticulture
Andrew Barker
Andrew Barker, UKSG chair, looks back on a difficult year – and towards a brighter future (and tells of his love for 50s jazz)
