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GeoScienceWorld's new, integrated e-books platform will be built on the HighWire Open Platform

Groups representing the research sector, SMEs and open-access publishers have withdrawn from the Licences for Europe dialogue on text and data mining due to…

Wiley has launched a six-month trial of Altmetric on several of its subscription and open-access titles

Semantico has developed a new journals platform for Now Publishers

DataSalon has announced what it describes as 'a major new data-quality initiative targeted at the needs of scholarly publishers'

Digital Science has launched Projects, which it describes as 'the only data tool designed specifically for scientific researchers that enables them to organise their…

A new survey of UK academics, carried out by Ithaka S+R, Jisc and RLUK, has revealed an increasing reliance on the internet and open…

Fragile, rolled-up historical documents could be read for the first time in centuries, thanks to new X-ray techniques

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will make its digital publications available to millions of people around the world free-of-charge with…

The University of Bristol in the UK has made a collection of rare atlases dating from 1574 to the 1970s available online for the…

The charitable trust Sense about Science has released a Chinese version of its guide to peer review. The aim is to help the public…

ProQuest has completed its acquisition of Ebook Library in a move that it says will 'significantly expand its e-book delivery and aggregation capabilities with…