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YBP Library Services and Ebrary have teamed up to provide electronic books through YBP's online database

Remote Australian library wins $1 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Microsoft, for providing technology to indigenous communities

EBSCO Publishing has bought ten social science print indexes from Sage with a view to publishing online

Open access proponents launch scathing attack on the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine, describing it as an 'anti-open access lobbying organisation'

BIA Digital Partners invests $10m in Eli Research to boost strategic growth

New initiative warns public against the risks of government interference to scientific publishing

The American Chemical Society claims chemistry research is thriving as its Abstracts Service logs a record number of references

The Fraunhofer Society selects Thomson Scientific's research database to help members win grants

Dutch investment firm, Gilde, buys subscription agent, Royal Swets and Zeitlinger, with plans to expand business into new markets

Touted as a model of library automation in the Middle East, Cairo University has chosen the so-called Millenium platform, designed by US library systems…

In a bid to boost publication exposure, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is to pay the processing charges for articles published by its researchers…

Global library federations urge government intervention as Iraqi librarians and national archives placed at risk from US and Iraq troops