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The publishing services division of Apex CoVantage has been selected to create a multi-million page digital archive of medical journals for a major association.

The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and Swets have signed the first cross-country consortia agreement with the Southern European Library Link (SELL).

The new publishing services company formed from the merger of Ingenta and VISTA International will be listed on the AIM stock exchange from tomorrow.

Four national ICT bodies have begun a multinational tender process to explore with publishers the possibility of cross-border licensing arrangements.

Hindawi Publishing has changed its last two subscription-based journals to an open-access publishing model.

Springer has acquired 29 journals from Transaction Publishers to strengthen its social-sciences position.

A coalition of 75 nonprofit publishers has made a statement opposing any legislation that would 'abruptly end a publishing system that has nurtured independent…

The petition calling on the European Commission to adopt polices to guarantee free public access to research results has been delivered to the EU…

Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.

A survey of major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies has revealed that electronic journals play a key role in communicating the research results of such…

Cambridge Information Group (CIG) has acquired ProQuest Information and Learning, which it will combine with its CSA subsidiary.

The New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library has licensed Wiley's peer-reviewed journals.