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De Gruyter and Versita cooperate on Eastern Europe

19 October 2009

Academic publishers cooperate in the publication and sales of journals from Eastern Europe and books from Eastern and Central Europe

Guide reviews open-access income models

09 October 2009

SPARC has published a guide that reviews the sustainability of current and propective open-access publishers.

French Sudoc records added to WorldCat

22 September 2009

Nine million records from French academic libraries will be added into WorldCat

Researchers concerned about mixed messages

22 September 2009

Researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about how they should communicate their research findings

PubMed Central Canada launches

22 September 2009

Canadians will soon have free access to their own archive of health science literature

Toby Green will be next chair of ALPSP

17 September 2009

Toby Green, head of publishing at OECD, was elected as the next chair of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

ALPSP announces award winners

14 September 2009

ALPSP announced the winners of its 2009 Awards at the ALPSP International Conference dinner in September

Researchers want to improve, not replace peer review

09 September 2009

Researchers want to improve, not replace peer review, according to preliminary findings from an international surveys of authors and reviewers, the Peer Review Survey 2009

BBSRC pours funds into bioscience datahandling

31 August 2009

A multi-million pound investment from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council will boost European Life Sciences research

Online learning beats traditional teaching

30 August 2009

US government report indicates students learning online have on average performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.

PEER appoints Loughborough and UCL universities

28 August 2009

Teams from Loughborough University and University College London are to investigate the impact of 'Green Open Access' on repository users

Alliance urges Google Books investigation

27 August 2009

The US Special Libraries Association and partners have formed the Open Books Alliance, which hopes to resolve issues of copyright, access, anti-trust and privacy

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