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Peter Norton wins IPI Award

17 March 2009

The 2009 IPI Award will be given to Peter Norton. The announcement was made at the International Patent Information Conference and Exposition, IPI-ConfEx, held in Venice-Mestre in March

US act protects NIH access policy

17 March 2009

President Obama has signed into law an act that makes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy permanent

Engineering librarian wins library research award

16 March 2009

William H. Mischo has won the 2009 Kilgour Award

Programme boosts Canadian research reach

12 March 2009

A new campaign is encouraging Canadian authors to use their campus digital repository to increase the use and impact of their research outputs

Australia's union catalogue synchronises with WorldCat

12 March 2009

OCLC's database synchronisation capability is keeping the Australian National Bibliographic Database synchronised with WorldCat

Shared digital library widens Scottish access to journals

12 March 2009

Scotland's university researchers will benefit from a shared digital library that should widen access to over 1,500 specialist journals and publications

University of Bradford picks Innovative

03 March 2009

The University of Bradford in the UK has chosen Innovative Interfaces as the supplier for several of its library system tools.

Hindawi's monthly submissions exceed 1000

03 March 2009

Egypt-based open-access publisher Hindawi received more than 1000 manuscript submissions to its open-access journal collection for the first time in February 2009.

Open-access supporters oppose US bill

19 February 2009

SPARC is asking all supporters of public access to oppose the reintroduction of the 'Fair Copyright in Research Works Act' in the USA.

Library-association statement sets out economic concerns

19 February 2009

The Association of Research Libraries has released a statement about the effects of the current global economic crisis on publishing and library subscriptions

Digitisation could help economy, says ARL director

12 February 2009

The executive director of the Association of Research Libraries has urged the US government to finance a large-scale digitisation project as a way to help the economy

Last UK research council mandates open access

12 February 2009

The UK's EPSRC has decided to mandate open-access publication of the research that it funds

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