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Helmholtz Association joins Springer's OA scheme

03 September 2010

Springer and Helmholtz Association sign agreement for open-access membership

Drake University chooses EBSCO Discovery Service

03 September 2010

Drake University and Cowles Library have selected EBSCO Discovery Service to enhance access to scholarly information

Advocate General turns downs EU patent

23 August 2010

The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has found flaws in the idea of the Community Patent and a European Patents Court

CRL and law libraries partner for preservation and access

21 August 2010

The USA-based Consortium for Research Libraries (CRL) will expand the scope of its preservation activities and make new primary source digital collections available to its libraries through a partnership with the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC)

Six librarians chosen for IFLA/OCLC fellowship programme

21 August 2010

Six librarians from countries with developing economies have been chosen for the Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Programme for 2011

WLIC delegates learn of impact of Haiti earthquake on libraries

21 August 2010

Security cameras in Haiti's national library captured the moment the country was hit by a massive earthquake in January. Delegates at IFLA's recent conference learned of efforts to rebuild Haiti's library infrastructure

British Library maps sounds across UK

20 August 2010

The British Library is launching an interactive survey to map and preserve sounds from across the UK using smartphones

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

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