News

Elsevier announces semantic web competition winners

11 November 2009

Elsevier has announced the winners of the 2009 Semantic Web Challenge

OAIster records join WorldCat.org

11 November 2009

The University of Michigan and OCLC have added the OAIster database to WorldCat.org

Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Society joins CLOCKSS

11 November 2009

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

Atypon signs two new publishers

10 November 2009

The American Economic Association and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health will use Atypon Premium software to power their new publishing websites

Michigan Library Consortium partners with SkyRiver

10 November 2009

The Michigan Library Consortium will offer SkyRiver's bibliographic utility services to its member libraries

SpringerWienNewYork and Versita strengthen partnership in Central Europe

19 October 2009

SpringerWienNewYork and Versita are working together to distribute, market, and sell STM journals from Central European societies and other institutions

US grants support digitisation

19 October 2009

The US Department of Education has awarded more than $2 million in grant funds for international digitisation projects

Student support grows for open access

19 October 2009

The student Right to Research Coalition now represents more than five million students in the USA and around the world

Coutts supplies e-books to Scottish academic libraries

19 October 2009

Scotland's APUC (Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges) Limited has selected Coutts and MyiLibrary together as one of three suppliers of e-books

Dawson Books picks up Scandinavian contracts

19 October 2009

Dawson Books has announced a series of recent tender awards in Norway and Sweden

Academic publisher and sporting body strike deal

19 October 2009

Multi-Science Publishing and the Professional Golfers Association have agreed a licence that will give the association's members unrestricted online access to several peer-reviewed sports titles

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

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