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Thieme Publishing Group has signed an agreement with the Missouri Library Network Corporation.

The Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization has signed an agreement for access to SAGE's online journals.

OCLC is uniting all offices under one name and visual brand identity. OCLC PICA is now known as OCLC.

Steven Inchcoombe is the new managing director of Nature Publishing Group (NPG). He succeeds Annette Thomas who was recently made CEO of Macmillan.

The UK PubMed Central Publishers Panel has agreed a set of principles for the re-use of documents for which an open-access fee has been…

The Massachusetts Medical Society has selected ScholarOne's Manuscript Central to be the online peer review system for its New England Journal of Medicine.

Wiley-Blackwell will become ISTE's exclusive co-publisher in the Americas, Asia, and other territories worldwide, from January 2008.

The Geological Society of London will make all the content from its digitised publications freely available to researchers in developing countries.

Swets has acquired exclusive rights to MPS Technologies' usage-statistics product, ScholarlyStats.

Thomson has acquired Prous Science, a provider of information solutions to help knowledge-based drug discovery and development.

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.