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Libraries in Nova Scotia and the University of New Brunswick will use OCLC's WorldCat Local service

The Israeli Science Foundation and the Israeli Committee for High Energy Physics have joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Israel.

Three-quarters of academic libraries and half of public libraries in the UK intend to increase their collections of e-books over the next year, according…

Europeana is now online and open to the public.

Europhysics Letters (EPL) will offer the open-access publishing model, free of charge, to all authors submitting experimental and theoretical letters in the fields of…

A new guidance booklet for vice-chancellors and senior institutional managers should help to ensure that libraries keep pace with researchers' needs.

Innovative Interfaces recently installed its Encore discovery services platform at Associated Topeka Libraries Automated System (ATLAS) in the USA.

Atypon Systems has launched an online publishing and content delivery site for the American Chemical Society's online journals.

Chinese, Japanese and Korean texts can all be searched and displayed in their original scripts, thanks to a project by SirsiDynix and Stanford University…

A new agreement will see many more digitised books available through Google Book Search and new ways to ensure that copyright owners are paid…

The international science community has agreed on the first steps to establishing a global virtual library for scientific data.

Book digitisation is being driven by consumers, online retailers and search engines, according to a survey by Frankfurt Book Fair.