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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

Elsevier buys Collexis

10 June 2010

Elsevier has bought Collexis Holdings, which develops semantic technology and knowledge discovery software

OA uptake still small, says OUP study

10 June 2010

Uptake of the open-access option on Oxford Journals' papers is still small five years after the publishers' Oxford Open initiative first launched

First organisations endorse KBART recommendations

28 May 2010

The American Institute of Physics, Ex Libris, Serials Solutions and OCLC are the first organisations have endorsed the Phase I recommendations of the KBART Working Group

Text-access project expands to Southern and Eastern Europe

24 May 2010

The European IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project has welcomed 11 new partners from Southern and Eastern Europe

CUP grants worldwide digital rights to Bookshare

24 May 2010

Cambridge University Press academic and scholarly books will become accessible to people with print disabilities thanks to a new licensing deal with Bookshare

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