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The Vatican Library has made its first digitised manuscripts available online

Portland Press enables authors to use the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) for open-access papers

WALDO (the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization) has signed an agreement enabling its member libraries to participate in the JSTOR digital library project

Teaching models in higher education are still not green enough, a study from The Open University has found

HighWire Press, Stanford University, and Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting have renewed their commitment to support scholarly publishers

The community-based, open-data platform, figshare, will host the supplemental data for the seven Public Library of Science journals

The UK has contributed more than 6,500 digitised museum objects to provide a boost for online learning

RCN Publishing has adopted DataSalon's MasterVision service to gain a better understanding of its customer base and to further develop its business

Knovel has announced the winners of its seventh annual university competition

Innovative is integrating access to the Digital Public Library of America collections into its Encore Synergy platform

Palgrave Macmillan has announced a CC-BY open-access option for monographs and Palgrave Pivot publications, as well as for its journals

The Physics Research Promotion Center of Taiwan is joining the high-energy open-access physics consortium SCOAP3