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Thieme chooses Ingram platform

19 August 2010

Thieme has selected Ingram's CoreSource platform to facilitate the archiving and distribution of e-content to partners worldwide

Library community mourns CILIP chief executive

19 August 2010

CILIP chief executive Bob McKee died in Sweden where he was attending the World Library and Information Congress

Open-access physics consortium gets award

14 July 2010

CERN/SCOAP3 is awarded the SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding
Achievements in Scholarly Communications

Auraria Library chooses Bibliotheca hybrid RFID system

14 July 2010

Three academic institutions in Denver will have hybrid RFID solutions

Google and KB team up on book digitisation

14 July 2010

The National Library of the Netherlands has begun a partnership with Google Book Search to digitise more than 160,000 public domain books

Southampton department releases public data in open linked data format

14 July 2010

The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton has become the UK's first university department to release all its public data in open linked data format for public reuse

Elsevier tests new peer-review approach

24 June 2010

Elsevier is piloting a new peer-review programme for Chemical Physics Letters where reviewers can choose which articles they would like to review

NISO launches new standards projects

24 June 2010

The National Information Standards Organization has launched six new standard or recommended practice development projects in the past six months

CRL works with British Library on thesis access

17 June 2010

Center for Research Libraries is working with the British Library to provide web access to dissertations and theses through the EThOS database

Bodleian Libraries get £1.5 million for digitisation

17 June 2010

A gift of £1.5 million has been given to the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford to support library digitisation initiatives and digital imaging facilities

Queen honours IOP Publishing's MD

16 June 2010

Jerry Cowhig, managing director of IOP Publishing, has been made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) 'for services to science' in the Queen's Birthday Honours list

Google will scan Austrian books

16 June 2010

Austria's national library has struck a 30-million-euro deal with Google to digitise 400,000 copyright-free books, spanning 400 years of European history

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