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Open Index Week launches
Knowledge for All will host the first Open Index Week, which will be from 24 to 28 October, alongside the international open-access week
Projects delve into enhanced publication
Six projects financed by SURFfoundation have been giving researchers insight into enhancing publications
Wiley announces agreement with JISC Collections
Wiley-Blackwell and JISC Collections have announced a three-year NESLi2 agreement for the higher education and further education communities in the UK
Major digital library networks work towards interoperability
The Digital Public Library of America will design its technical structure to promote interoperability with Europeana
950 Elsevier new health titles join Research4Life
Elsevier is contributing an additional 950 electronic books to the Research4Life initiative
Ingram teams up with BoD in Germany
Ingram Content Group has expanded its Global Connect programme through an alliance with Books On Demand
Kazakhstan researchers get Web of Knowledge
Thomson Reuters has announced a three-year national agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan's National Center for Scientific and Technical Information
Copyright Clearance Center automates permission requests for MVB
MVB Marketing und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels has chosen Copyright Clearance Center to automate the licensing of permission requests for German, Swiss and Austrian publishers
Digital Science invests in Labtiva
Digital Science has invested in Labtiva, a Boston-based start-up that aims to help researchers manage their information collections more efficiently. The deal was announced at the STM Franfurt conference
Thieme licenses Luxid for semantic content enrichment
Thieme will use the Luxid semantic software from TEMIS to assist in the semantic enrichment and categorisation of its electronic content
New tool searches UK's repositories
A new search engine should help academics, students and the general public navigate papers held in the UK's open-access repositories