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Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has signed a membership agreement with BioMed Central to cover publication costs for research articles published by its researchers

There is a clear correlation between levels of usage of e-journals and research outcomes, according to studies done by the CIBER group at University…

Online publishers are losing significant revenue and, in many cases, the rights to their material, because of the way they implement 'article tools' on…

Methodspace, SAGE's free public social network dedicated to the discussion of research methods online, attracted more than 1000 members in its first month

Online access to the discontinued journal Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention is being maintained through CLOCKSS and Portico

Five universities and a consortium in the USA plan to re-direct their current high-energy physics journal subscriptions to the SCOAP3 initiative

Lightning Source has launched an Espresso Book Machine (EBM) title pilot with On Demand Books

Although library catalogues are often thought of as discovery tools, their delivery-related information is just as important to end users, according to a new…

Elsevier has announced the winners of the Elsevier Grand Challenge, which invited researchers to prototype tools dealing with the increasing amount of online life…

OECD is urging the industry to adopt standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and linking to help overcome current problems with discovering and citing data

The UK's Research Information Network and Universities UK have provided advice on paying open-access publication charges

Middlesex University in the UK has received funding to develop a medical image repository