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University of Maryland University College chooses EBSCO for discovery

12 August 2011

University of Maryland University College (UMUC) has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing as its discovery service

CrossRef revises DOI display guidelines

12 August 2011

CrossRef has announced an update to its Digital Object Identifier (DOI) online display guidelines

UK hopes intellectual property reforms will promote growth

12 August 2011

The UK Government has accepted recommendations made by an independent review for modernising the country's intellectual property laws

BioMed Central brings open-access initiative to West Africa

12 August 2011

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology of Kumasi, Ghana, is the first African Foundation Member to participate in 'Open Access Africa'

Springer announces winners of first API Challenge

18 July 2011

Springer has chosen the first, second, and third place winners of its API Challenge 1.0

Archive charts birth of modern China

18 July 2011

An online archive of 8,000 rare photographs of Chinese life between 1850 and 1950 has been launched through the Visualising China project

Biochemical Society appoints new publishing head

18 July 2011

Caroline Black is the managing director of Portland Press

John Benjamins picks Publishing Technology's platform

15 July 2011

The independent Dutch academic publisher John Benjamins has chosen Publishing Technology's pub2web platform to host its publications in one place for the first time

Nanyang Technological University picks EBSCO Discovery Service

15 July 2011

Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has selected EBSCO Discovery Service

JISC calls for openly-accessible metadata

13 July 2011

A JISC-funded taskforce is arguing that unlocking the descriptive information about digital content, articles, books and research is the key to making it more useful

PLoS ONE is new SPARC Innovator

13 July 2011

SPARC has named the Public Library of Science's PLoS ONE as the latest SPARC Innovator

OCLC and Research Libraries UK survey special collections in UK and Ireland

11 July 2011

OCLC Research and Research Libraries UK are working together to gather data on special collections in research libraries in the UK and Ireland

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