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Lynne Brindley, chief executive of The British Library, has become the new chair of The European Library Management Board.

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, is opening a representative office in China.

Private equity firm Bridgepoint Capital Limited is buying the Education division of Wolters Kluwer.

Blackwell Books Online has been certified as providing COUNTER-compliant usage data.

Scientists fear that non-traditional publication could affect their chances of promotion, according to a new study.

German researchers will have access to all Emerald journals between 1994 and 2005 thanks to a new agreement between the publisher and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

The UK should have a live, fully-integrated, national electronic theses service within two years, thanks to funding of a new project.

The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has endorsed the Brussels Declaration on STM Publishing.

Elsevier has bought the Beilstein Database, the world's largest compilation of chemical facts in the field of organic chemistry.

The National Library of New Zealand will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to WorldCat.

ProQuest CSA and Oxford University Library Services will digitise more than 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library's John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.

The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has called for the open-access debate to be opened up to different types of scholarly literature and…