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Article tools can help pirates

07 May 2009

Online publishers are losing significant revenue and, in many cases, the rights to their material, because of the way they implement 'article tools' on their web pages

More than 1000 researchers now collaborating on Methodspace

30 April 2009

Methodspace, SAGE's free public social network dedicated to the discussion of research methods online, attracted more than 1000 members in its first month

Oxford Journals releases title to preservation services

27 April 2009

Online access to the discontinued journal Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention is being maintained through CLOCKSS and Portico

More US universities back open-access physics initiative

27 April 2009

Five universities and a consortium in the USA plan to re-direct their current high-energy physics journal subscriptions to the SCOAP3 initiative

Publishers try out Espresso Book Machine pilot programme

24 April 2009

Lightning Source has launched an Espresso Book Machine (EBM) title pilot with On Demand Books

Report reveals what users want from library catalogues

22 April 2009

Although library catalogues are often thought of as discovery tools, their delivery-related information is just as important to end users, according to a new report from OCLC

Elsevier announces Grand Challenge winners

22 April 2009

Elsevier has announced the winners of the Elsevier Grand Challenge, which invited researchers to prototype tools dealing with the increasing amount of online life sciences information

Standards needed for publishing datasets

21 April 2009

OECD is urging the industry to adopt standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and linking to help overcome current problems with discovering and citing data

Guide sets out open-access payment guidelines

10 April 2009

The UK's Research Information Network and Universities UK have provided advice on paying open-access publication charges

Funding helps medical image repository project

08 April 2009

Middlesex University in the UK has received funding to develop a medical image repository

IOS Press electronic access agreed across China

08 April 2009

IOS Press and NSTL have signed a three-year contract for China-wide access

Two UK academic libraries pick Encore

26 March 2009

Two UK academic libraries have gone live with Encore, the discovery services platform from Innovative Interfaces

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