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A new membership organisation has been formed to support managing and technical editors of peer-reviewed journals.

Medical researchers and doctors in training regularly use online journals, even if they have to do so from their local internet cafe, according to…

SAGE has signed the UKSG Project Transfer Code of Practice.

Simon Dessain, chief operating officer of Publishing Technology and former chief executive of Ingenta, has announced that he is leaving the company.

The EU's High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries has presented an advisory report on copyright issues to the European Commission.

A number of options are available to raise the quality of peer review, according to a new report from the European Science Foundation (ESF).

Two prestigious Australian institutes, the University of New South Wales and Monash University, have chosen the Scopus database.

The Wayne State University Libraries have achieved real-time acquisition of user statistics from within Innovative Interfaces' electronic resource management system.

Journal prices have risen by very different amounts over the past seven years, according to a study by LISU, of Loughborough University, UK.

Chongqing Library in China has chosen the ALEPH 500 integrated library system from Ex Libris.

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.