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Digital Science supports open data project FigShare
Mark Hahnel has joined to the Research Tools team of Digital Science to carry on his work developing FigShare, a service that enables researchers to publish and share their data
Swets acquires Accucoms
Swets has bought Accucoms. The provider of sales and marketing services to academic and professional publishers will remain an independent entity under Swets' umbrella
De Gruyter opens subsidiary in Beijing
De Gruyter has moved into its new representative office in the People's Republic of China
JISC Collections signs agreement for Taylor & Francis journals
Taylor & Francis Journals has announced a new NESLi2 agreement with the UK's JISC Collections for 2012 to 2014
University of Maryland University College chooses EBSCO for discovery
University of Maryland University College (UMUC) has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing as its discovery service
CrossRef revises DOI display guidelines
CrossRef has announced an update to its Digital Object Identifier (DOI) online display guidelines
UK hopes intellectual property reforms will promote growth
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
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
Springer has chosen the first, second, and third place winners of its API Challenge 1.0
Archive charts birth of modern China
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
Caroline Black is the managing director of Portland Press