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YBP Library Services will distribute Gale's e-books to academic libraries

Microsoft and Creative Commons have announced an ontology add-on for Word 2007

The 2009 IPI Award will be given to Peter Norton. The announcement was made at the International Patent Information Conference and Exposition, IPI-ConfEx, held…

President Obama has signed into law an act that makes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy permanent

William H. Mischo has won the 2009 Kilgour Award

A new campaign is encouraging Canadian authors to use their campus digital repository to increase the use and impact of their research outputs

OCLC's database synchronisation capability is keeping the Australian National Bibliographic Database synchronised with WorldCat

Scotland's university researchers will benefit from a shared digital library that should widen access to over 1,500 specialist journals and publications

The University of Bradford in the UK has chosen Innovative Interfaces as the supplier for several of its library system tools.

Egypt-based open-access publisher Hindawi received more than 1000 manuscript submissions to its open-access journal collection for the first time in February 2009.

SPARC is asking all supporters of public access to oppose the reintroduction of the 'Fair Copyright in Research Works Act' in the USA.

The Association of Research Libraries has released a statement about the effects of the current global economic crisis on publishing and library subscriptions