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Knovel and ASTM seal online publication deal
Knovel adds publications from ASTM International to its online technical reference collection
US universities pioneer electronic publishing
North American universities are leading the world on electronic publishing and open access while European counterparts play catch up, indicates the latest Webometrics survey
Google gets personal with libraries
Internet search provider, Google, has added a new feature to its 'Books Search' that allows users to build their own digital libraries
Mayo Clinic teams with Collexis to uncover database secrets
US software developer, Collexis, is to pilot its semantic profiling system with Mayo Clinic Libraries, US, in a bid to mine hidden knowledge from existing databases
European libraries drive digital repositories forward
A collaboration between the European Association of Research Libraries and the European Digital Repository Research Infrastructure aims to promote open access across Europe
International archives select UK preservation technology
The British Library and the National Archives of Malaysia have chosen UK archiving technology to combat digital preservation problems
Canada Institutes champion open access
A new policy from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research aims to promote public access to its funded research
YBP Library Services and Ebrary seal 'eBook' deal
YBP Library Services and Ebrary have teamed up to provide electronic books through YBP's online database
Australian library bags cash from Bill Gates
Remote Australian library wins $1 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Microsoft, for providing technology to indigenous communities
EBSCO buys Sage indexes
EBSCO Publishing has bought ten social science print indexes from Sage with a view to publishing online
Open access community condemns PRISM
Open access proponents launch scathing attack on the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine, describing it as an 'anti-open access lobbying organisation'