Atypon Systems has launched an online publishing and content delivery site for the American Chemical Society's online journals.
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Partners display original characters
03 November 2008
Chinese, Japanese and Korean texts can all be searched and displayed in their original scripts, thanks to a project by SirsiDynix and Stanford University in the USA.
Authors, publishers and Google agree on copyright
03 November 2008
A new agreement will see many more digitised books available through Google Book Search and new ways to ensure that copyright owners are paid for this access.
Science community plans global data library
27 October 2008
The international science community has agreed on the first steps to establishing a global virtual library for scientific data.
Consumers drive book digitisation, says survey
16 October 2008
Book digitisation is being driven by consumers, online retailers and search engines, according to a survey by Frankfurt Book Fair.
Cambridge University Press picks Rightslink
16 October 2008
Cambridge Journals has chosen Copyright Clearance Center's Rightslink to help its readers obtain copyright permissions to share and distribute published materials directly from content pages online.
Canada, Australia and New Zealand plan book coalition
16 October 2008
Publishers from Canada, Australia and New Zealand will pursue closer cooperation between their three English-language markets.
NetLibrary investigates e-books
15 October 2008
OCLC's eContent division, NetLibrary is looking for participants in a short survey into usage and perceptions of e-books and e-audiobooks.
New OA declaration is developed
10 October 2008
The latest statement on open access, the Brisbane Declaration, has been released.
Springer buys BioMed Central
09 October 2008
Springer is acquiring the open-access publisher BioMed Central.
Swets buys Dutch book seller
02 October 2008
Subscription services company Swets has bought Boekhandel E. Frencken, a Netherlands-based book and journal seller.
WorldCat.org links to Google Book Search content
02 October 2008
WorldCat.org users can now view digitised books in the Google Book Search collection, on the WorldCat.org website.
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