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The executive director of the Association of Research Libraries has urged the US government to finance a large-scale digitisation project as a way to…

The UK's EPSRC has decided to mandate open-access publication of the research that it funds

The Association of American Publishers has welcomed US legislation that aims to safeguard the rights of authors and publishers of copyrighted, peer-reviewed scientific journal…

Twelve projects have been approved for the SURFshare programme. The projects aim to promote knowledge dissemination via the internet and contribute to improving the…

Emerald has announced the Indian 2009 Emerald Research Fund in the field of library and information science (LIS) research.

The chief executive of the British Library, Lynne Brindley, has challenged the UK government that it must include preservation in its vision of a…

SirsiDynix has announced several new or returning customers for its integrated library systems

The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has expressed its interest in joining SCOAP3, the open-access high-energy physics consortium

St. Lawrence University in the USA will use Encore Harvesting Services from Innovative Interfaces to produce a single unified search of its OAI-PMH-compliant collections

Anglia Ruskin University and the University of East London have both picked OCLC's QuestionPoint to provide online enquiry support services to their library users

TBI and Talis have picked the European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society for a pilot project to test the application of semantic…

The Collections Trust and the Strategic Content Alliance are working together to find out what impact orphan works have on the delivery of services…