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The USA is still the superpower of science, according to the first Nature Publishing Index (NPI) Global supplement

Yale University has chosen the Summon discovery service from Serials Solutions to improve access to its collection of 15 million volumes and information in…

A G8 'Open for Growth' event on 15 June will discuss open data in the run up to next week's G8 Leaders Summit

The Directory of Open Access Journals has announced more stringent selection criteria

A new research project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aims to evaluate massive open online courses and their impacts on teaching,…

Europeana has launched a new project titled 'Europeana 1989' where people across Europe are invited to share their experiences, stories and memorabilia from the…

Peerage of Science has won this year's Communications Professionals of Finnish Universities annual recognition award

DeepDyve, which provides online rental of scholarly and professional research articles, has announced a new 'freemium' offering that allows users to preview the full…

Knowledge-management consultancy business SMR International and Soutron Global, which provides enterprise library management services, have announced an alliance

Open Book Publishers of Cambridge, UK has won the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award for its initiatives in open-access monograph publishing

The Wellcome Trust is extending its open-access policy to include all scholarly monographs and book chapters written by its grantholders as part of Wellcome-funded…

Nature Publishing Group has reported a big increase in papers authored by Chinese researchers. The proportion of papers in Nature-branded journals published by authors…