Cambridge Information Group (CIG) has acquired ProQuest Information and Learning, which it will combine with its CSA subsidiary.
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Public library signs up for Wiley's STM resources
08 February 2007
The New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library has licensed Wiley's peer-reviewed journals.
Germany's researchers gain more archive information
08 February 2007
Ovid and Elsevier are providing researchers across Germany with access to scientific journal and database archives.
Princeton University joins Google's library project
08 February 2007
Princeton University, USA, has joined the Google Library Project and will digitise approximately one million public-domain books from its collections.
VISTA and Ingenta merge
06 February 2007
Two major technology providers are joining together to form Publishing Technology.
Social-science publishers pick ScholarOne
06 February 2007
Emerald and Multilingual Matters have both chosen ScholarOne's Manuscript Central as their online peer-review systems.
Wiley completes Blackwell acquisition
05 February 2007
Wiley has finalised its acquisition of Blackwell Publishing.
Over 15,000 sign open-access petition
01 February 2007
The petition urging the European Commission to support open access has attracted over 15,000 signatories in its first two weeks.
First French partner joins LOCKSS Alliance
25 January 2007
The Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has become the first French member of the LOCKSS Alliance.
Global science gateway formed
25 January 2007
The US Department of Energy and the British Library have teamed up to make international science information resources accessible via a single internet portal.
Early Royal Society papers get DOIs
22 January 2007
The Royal Society has registered all of its historical back-file content with CrossRef.
Partners join Innovative's Encore development
19 January 2007
Innovative Interfaces has signed up four new development partners for its Encore platform.
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