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Springer has reorganised its global scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing division into global and local publishing.

A group representing UK biologists has come out in favour of open-access publishing, provided that it is adequately funded and that policies are flexible.

RSC Project Prospect from the Royal Society of Chemistry has won the 2007 ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Publishing Innovation.

Based on total citations to their works, US-based Thomson Scientific has pinpointed researchers most likely to win a 2007 Nobel Prize

Knovel adds publications from ASTM International to its online technical reference collection

North American universities are leading the world on electronic publishing and open access while European counterparts play catch up, indicates the latest Webometrics survey

Internet search provider, Google, has added a new feature to its 'Books Search' that allows users to build their own digital libraries

US software developer, Collexis, is to pilot its semantic profiling system with Mayo Clinic Libraries, US, in a bid to mine hidden knowledge from…

A collaboration between the European Association of Research Libraries and the European Digital Repository Research Infrastructure aims to promote open access across Europe

The British Library and the National Archives of Malaysia have chosen UK archiving technology to combat digital preservation problems

A new policy from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research aims to promote public access to its funded research

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