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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.

Deal streamlines article access for research assessors

11 December 2008

Assessors in the UK's latest Research Assessment Exercise have had fee-waived access to 150,000 journal articles, thanks to a deal agreed with the Publishers Licensing Society.

Iraq librarian honoured

10 December 2008

CILIP has given an honorary fellowship to Saad Eskander, the director-general of the Iraq National Library and Archive.

Partnership helps reveal rights

08 December 2008

A new partnership between Copyright Clearance Center and Reprints Desk aims to help corporations get the most value from their investments in content

RSC teams up with ChemSpider on InChI Resolver

01 December 2008

ChemZoo and the Royal Society of Chemistry are working together to help scientists share chemical structures and data.

BioFlorida picks BiomedExperts.com

01 December 2008

BioFlorida picks Collexis' BiomedExperts.com as the primary professional network for its 200 member companies and organisations

Canadian libraries chose WorldCat Local

01 December 2008

Libraries in Nova Scotia and the University of New Brunswick will use OCLC's WorldCat Local service

Israel joins SCOAP3

21 November 2008

The Israeli Science Foundation and the Israeli Committee for High Energy
Physics have joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Israel.

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