The National Library of New Zealand will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to WorldCat.
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Digitisation helps preserve printing history
08 March 2007
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.
US university presses want to expand open-access discussion
01 March 2007
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 different access models.
Apex takes on medical digitisation project
01 March 2007
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.
ALPSP Learned Journals Collection signs Southern European deal
27 February 2007
The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and Swets have signed the first cross-country consortia agreement with the Southern European Library Link (SELL).
Publishing Technology lists on AIM
27 February 2007
The new publishing services company formed from the merger of Ingenta and VISTA International will be listed on the AIM stock exchange from tomorrow.
European partners explore cross-border licences
26 February 2007
Four national ICT bodies have begun a multinational tender process to explore with publishers the possibility of cross-border licensing arrangements.
Hindawi completes OA conversion
23 February 2007
Hindawi Publishing has changed its last two subscription-based journals to an open-access publishing model.
Springer boosts social science programme
22 February 2007
Springer has acquired 29 journals from Transaction Publishers to strengthen its social-sciences position.
Publishers oppose government mandates
21 February 2007
A coalition of 75 nonprofit publishers has made a statement opposing any legislation that would 'abruptly end a publishing system that has nurtured independent scientific inquiry for generations'.
Open-access petition presented to EC
20 February 2007
The petition calling on the European Commission to adopt polices to guarantee free public access to research results has been delivered to the EU Commissioner for Science and Research.
SirsiDynix CEO resigns
20 February 2007
Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.
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