Investors from Sweden and Singapore have acquired Springer Science+Business Media
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BBC and British Library broaden archive access
The BBC and British Library are working together to make the content and assets of both organisations more widely available
SURF publishes guide to data use
SURFdirect of the Netherlands has published a guide clarifying the legal protection that applies to research data
Two Danish libraries pick Dawson Books
Dawson Books has been chosen as international book supplier to the University of Copenhagen and The Royal Library, Copenhagen
JISC launches Research 3.0 campaign
JISC in the UK is launching a year-long campaign called 'Research 3.0 - driving the knowledge economy'
Informa interested in buying Springer
Informa has confirmed that it is in discussions about acquiring Springer Science + Business Media
One size does not fit all for life scientists
'One-size-fits-all' information and data-sharing policies are not achieving scientifically productive and cost-efficient information use in life sciences, according to a report by the British Library and the Research Information Network
Nobel Prize winners lobby US Congress over access
Nobel Prize winners have given US Congress an open letter, urging that 'For America to obtain an optimal return on our investment in science, publicly funded research must be shared as broadly as possible.'
Publishing Technology and TBI collaborate on semantic web project
Publishing Technology has become the development partner for a pilot project being coordinated by TBI Communications into the use of the semantic web
Elsevier announces semantic web competition winners
Elsevier has announced the winners of the 2009 Semantic Web Challenge
OAIster records join WorldCat.org
The University of Michigan and OCLC have added the OAIster database to WorldCat.org
Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Society joins CLOCKSS
The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society have signed agreements to join CLOCKSS and preserve their materials in the CLOCKSS network of geographically- and geopolitically-distributed archive nodes