The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has expressed its interest in joining SCOAP3, the open-access high-energy physics consortium
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US university picks Innovative Interfaces tool for repository harvesting
15 January 2009
St. Lawrence University in the USA will use Encore Harvesting Services from Innovative Interfaces to produce a single unified search of its OAI-PMH-compliant collections
Two UK universities choose OCLC to help with online enquiries
15 January 2009
Anglia Ruskin University and the University of East London have both picked OCLC's QuestionPoint to provide online enquiry support services to their library users
Project tries out new technology on journal articles
13 January 2009
TBI and Talis have picked the European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society for a pilot project to test the application of semantic Web and Web 2.0 technologies to journal articles
Initiative looks at impact of orphan works
13 January 2009
The Collections Trust and the Strategic Content Alliance are working together to find out what impact orphan works have on the delivery of services to the public
Ingram makes changes at the top
08 January 2009
James Gray, who was president and CEO of Ingram Digital, has been named as chief strategy officer of the Ingram content companies. Mike Lovett replaces him as CEO of Ingram Digital
UK academic network increases capacity
08 January 2009
JANET, the UK's education and research network, has increased its capacity from 10Gbit/s to 40Gbit/s
Canada moves towards electronic-only journal collection
17 December 2008
The National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information is moving towards an electronic-only journal collection.
Free service collects tables of content
17 December 2008
A new free service makes it easier to keep up-to-date with scholarly journals
Swiss metadata hub picks OCLC's discovery tool
11 December 2008
OCLC will implement a 'Library 2.0' meta-catalogue of Swiss university libraries and the Swiss National Library.
Google Book Search adds magazines
11 December 2008
Google plans to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online as part of its Google Book Search project.
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