Biomedical researcher wins IET award
A research expert in biomedical engineering has been awarded £300,000 from the Institution of Engineering and Technology
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Technical, cultural and creative sectors unite for EuropeanaTech 2015
Technical experts, developers and researchers will discuss the challenges around storing our digital cultural heritage at the 2nd EuropeanaTech Conference in Paris next month
25,000 Proquest titles released in Michigan/Oxford deal
The full text of more than 25,000 titles from the ProQuest resource Early English Books Online (EEBO) are now openly available on the websites…
Prestigious universities join forces in Turing project
The five universities chosen to lead the Alan Turing Institute have been announced: Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, Warwick and University College London
Ex Libris and Harrassowitz to provide ‘streamlined acquisition process’
Booksellers and subscription agent Harrassowitz is to join forces with Ex Libris Group with the aim of providing library staff with a streamlined acquisition…
Nature Publishing Group moves to CC BY 4.0 for OA journals
All 18 open access journals owned by Nature Publishing Group (NPG), and two society titles published by NPG, will use the Creative Commons Attribution…
New page as Overleaf appoints Baynes
Overleaf, (previously WriteLaTeX), the collaborative authoring and publishing tool for scientific research, has appointed Mary Anne Baynes as head of sales and marketing
EBSCO and American Medical Association move closer
EBSCO Information Services and the American Medical Association (AMA) are expanding their relationship in an effort to further promote visibility and adoption of the…
Librarians urge publishers: get your metadata out there, everywhere
Improving the Discoverability of Scholarly Content: Academic Library Priorities and Perspectives, a Sage white paper published today, discusses new ways for members of the…
Sustainable Collection Services snapped up by OCLC
OCLC has acquired Sustainable Collection Services (SCS), a company dedicated to helping libraries manage their print collections
Springer merger with Macmillan announced
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and BC Partners have announced an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media in its entirety with the majority of Macmillan Science…
Open access needs simple and standard processes, say institutions
The move towards a sustainable open access system needs simplified and standardised processes, according to participants of a meeting hosted by Copyright Clearance Center…