Elsevier has announced the winners of the Elsevier Grand Challenge, which invited researchers to prototype tools dealing with the increasing amount of online life sciences information
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Standards needed for publishing datasets
OECD is urging the industry to adopt standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and linking to help overcome current problems with discovering and citing data
Guide sets out open-access payment guidelines
The UK's Research Information Network and Universities UK have provided advice on paying open-access publication charges
Funding helps medical image repository project
Middlesex University in the UK has received funding to develop a medical image repository
IOS Press electronic access agreed across China
IOS Press and NSTL have signed a three-year contract for China-wide access
Two UK academic libraries pick Encore
Two UK academic libraries have gone live with Encore, the discovery services platform from Innovative Interfaces
Egyptian researchers get Web of Knowledge
The Egyptian University Libraries consortium has signed a multi-year contract for researcher access to ISI Web of Knowledge
Publishers endorse TRANSFER
The UKSG's TRANSFER Code of Practice has now been endorsed by 20 publishers
British Library invests in new scanning technology
The British Library has invested in new scanning technology to support major new digitisation projects
MIT agrees open-access policy
The faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is adopting an open-access repository policy
Irish consortium chooses SPIE Digital Library
IReL selects SPIE Digital Library to expand its member libraries' access to optics and photonics research literature
Ringgold and DataSalon partner to analyse publishers' customer data
Ringgold and DataSalon are partnering to help publishers understand their customers better