The US Senate has approved a bill that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require rather than request that the researchers it funds make their results publicly available.
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Missouri library group signs up with Thieme
25 October 2007
Thieme Publishing Group has signed an agreement with the Missouri Library Network Corporation.
SAGE partners with WALDO
25 October 2007
The Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization has signed an agreement for access to SAGE's online journals.
OCLC and OCLC PICA form single brand
25 October 2007
OCLC is uniting all offices under one name and visual brand identity. OCLC PICA is now known as OCLC.
Nature Publishing Group gets new MD
22 October 2007
Steven Inchcoombe is the new managing director of Nature Publishing Group (NPG). He succeeds Annette Thomas who was recently made CEO of Macmillan.
Publishers and funders agree on OA re-use rights
12 October 2007
The UK PubMed Central Publishers Panel has agreed a set of principles for the re-use of documents for which an open-access fee has been paid.
New England Journal of Medicine picks Manuscript Central
10 October 2007
The Massachusetts Medical Society has selected ScholarOne's Manuscript Central to be the online peer review system for its New England Journal of Medicine.
Wiley-Blackwell and ISTE team up for book publishing
10 October 2007
Wiley-Blackwell will become ISTE's exclusive co-publisher in the Americas, Asia, and other territories worldwide, from January 2008.
Geological Society plans developing-world initiative
02 October 2007
The Geological Society of London will make all the content from its digitised publications freely available to researchers in developing countries.
Swets acquires ScholarlyStats
02 October 2007
Swets has acquired exclusive rights to MPS Technologies' usage-statistics product, ScholarlyStats.
Thomson acquires Prous Science
01 October 2007
Thomson has acquired Prous Science, a provider of information solutions to help knowledge-based drug discovery and development.
Springer reorganises STM division
01 October 2007
Springer has reorganised its global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing division into global and local publishing.
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