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Dansk Bibliotekscenter is partnering with OCLC to synchronise DANBIB, the Danish national union catalogue, with WorldCat

University of South Carolina in the USA has selected EBSCO Discovery Service with Encore as its discovery service

Brill is taking on the international distribution of the foreign-language academic titles on Wildlife, Nature & Conservation of KNNV Publishing (Royal Dutch Society for…

Altmetric has begun tracking mentions of academic articles on the Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo

Portland Press is moving its journals, including the Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science and Bioscience Reports, to the HighWire Open Platform

Elsevier is collaborating with scientific social network MyScienceWork on a pilot initiative to enable researchers to easily share and discover over 11 million articles…

China is on track to become the dominant scientific power in Asia-Pacific, according to the editors of the Nature Publishing Index (NPI) 2013 Asia-Pacific

The Wellcome Library and Jisc have signed a new three-year agreement to digitise more than 10 million pages of 19th century published works

Two of BioMed Central's journals have integrated with the open data repository Dryad

Innovative has acquired Polaris Library Systems, which provides technology to public libraries in the USA

Book distributor Macmillan Distribution is launching a new subscriptions platform with Publishing Technology's advance enterprise system

The UKSG Transfer Working Group has released the Transfer Code of Practice Version 3.0