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Electronic book business, ebrary, has teamed up with University of Virginia Press, Allen & Unwin and other publishers to make more 'eBooks' available to…

Following 'soaring' article charges, Yale University Science Libraries drop BioMed Central's open access service while the publisher claims it offers 'excellent value for money'

University librarians see a bright future for electronic books in academia but many challenges including licensing and access issues must be addressed first

French search software provider, Exalead, joins the Automated Content Access Protocol Pilot project with a view to validating the initiative

Knovel and JISC Collections join forces to provide science and technology resources to UK universities and colleges

Brill has selected "IngentaConnect" to host its 50,000 article back-file in a bid to give academics the opportunity to search for a broader range…

US sees a decay in the number of scientific papers published while the rest of the world increases its article count

HP and the MIT Libraries have formed a non-profit organisation that will support the growing community of institutions that use the open-source DSpace software.

Ovid Technologies will provide over 300 OUP medical and health science e-books, including over 80 new titles, for subscription and purchase on the Books@Ovid…

Keio University in Japan will partner with Google Book Search Library Project to digitise its library collection.

Springer Science+Business Media will buy German scientific publisher Spektrum Akademischer Verlag from Elsevier.

Collexis has signed an enterprise licence agreement and ongoing engagement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).