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CourseSmart, which provides e-textbooks and digital course materials, has announced partnerships with 16 more publishers, bringing its total to over 31

Liverpool Scholarship Online has launched on Oxford University Press's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) platform

Swets has signed a three-year contract with the UK Houses of Parliament for the supply and delivery of periodicals to both Houses

Copyright-free books from the National Library of the Czech Republic can now be ordered as e-books via the eBooks on Demand service

Eight scholarly presses, including the recently-revived University of Missouri Press and the Chinese University Press, have joined the University Press Content Consortium and will…

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