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JSTOR and Atypon Systems have teamed up to develop a new software platform for publications archived with JSTOR.

Thomson Scientific is supplying journal literature information to The Patent Board for a study of scientific research trends on behalf of the US National…

A group of European organisations are calling on the European Commission to support public access to the output of EC-funded research shortly after publication.

Provider of e-content services, ebrary, has partnered with YBP Library Services, which provide materials to the academic library community.

Nature’s authors and readers are reluctant to participate in an open peer-review process, according to a recent experiment carried out by the journal.

CrossRef has reached agreements with three new partners to include hundreds of journals from Africa and Asia in its linking network.

As Google and its rivals move into traditional research information territory, they could face challenges of their own. A new type of search engine…

Elsevier has given the Medical Library Association (MLA) a grant of $80,000 to train librarians in the African, Asian, and Latin American continents.

A private equity firm has bought library-management-system giant SirsiDynix. The buyer, Vista Equity Partners, focuses solely on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses.

The UK version of the US National Institutes of Health’s open-access biomedical research archive has now been launched.

MPS Technologies and Thomson Scientific have successfully completed the transfer of data between their two systems, using the SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative)…