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Coursera, which provides massive open online courses, has announced a pilot programme with several top higher education publishers to expand the availability of their…

De Gruyter is now archiving its 36 databases and 55 eBookPLUS in the CLOCKSS Archive

Peerage of Science has signed a membership agreement with ORCID

The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University is the first school at the university and one of the first US schools of…

PLOS has launched the Accelerating Science Award Program to recognise the use of scientific research, published through open access, which has led to innovations…

De Gruyter has acquired the German publisher Ontos

Soutron Global has announced the selection of its library software solution by the European School of Osteopathy Library, based in Maidstone, UK

The Library Copyright Alliance has filed a 'friend of the court' brief in support of Georgia State University in response to legal action by…

BMJ has teamed up with IC Tomorrow, part of the Technology Strategy Board, in a UK-wide competition to help encourage digital innovation in the…

Nature and the Nature Research journals are introducing new measures to improve the consistency and quality of reporting in the life sciences research they…

Semantico is working with Bioscientifica to develop Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism (EDM) Case Reports, the publisher's new open-access publication

The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2013 finds that, although the USA is still the dominant player in the scientific world, new centres of science are…