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Publishers and British Library agree framework licence

09 September 2011

Publishers and the British Library agree framework licence agreement for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchers

Digital Science supports open data project FigShare

09 September 2011

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

24 August 2011

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

12 August 2011

De Gruyter has moved into its new representative office in the People's Republic of China

JISC Collections signs agreement for Taylor & Francis journals

12 August 2011

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

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

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