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A new open standard for publishers and search engines has been unveiled which aims to end clashes between publishers and search engines.

President Bush says that the LHSS Appropriations Act, 2008, which includes the requirement for NIH-funded research to be made open access, is too expensive.

JSTOR, which archives scholarly content, has extended its 10-year relationship with knowledge process outsourcing company Apex CoVantage.

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland has investigated how false research results can slip through the editing and peer-review processes.

The BMJ Group has opened a sales office in Beijing.

Thomson Scientific will provide citation data to Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training.

A group of scientific publishers has released a beta test version of the STIX Fonts, which should enable mathematical and scientific symbols to be…

Thousands of rare books from Yale University's Library will be available online thanks to a deal between Yale University and Microsoft.

The UK's National e-Journals Initiative 2 (NESLi2) has signed a four-year licence for Elsevier's ScienceDirect.

Professional Engineering Publishing has signed an agreement with EMpact to promote its journals in parts of Eastern Europe and Latin America.

Three trade associations have released a joint statement that sets out conditions for using copyright works where the owners of the material cannot be…

The US Senate has approved a bill that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require rather than request that the researchers it…