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US grants support digitisation
The US Department of Education has awarded more than $2 million in grant funds for international digitisation projects
Student support grows for open access
The student Right to Research Coalition now represents more than five million students in the USA and around the world
Coutts supplies e-books to Scottish academic libraries
Scotland's APUC (Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges) Limited has selected Coutts and MyiLibrary together as one of three suppliers of e-books
Dawson Books picks up Scandinavian contracts
Dawson Books has announced a series of recent tender awards in Norway and Sweden
Academic publisher and sporting body strike deal
Multi-Science Publishing and the Professional Golfers Association have agreed a licence that will give the association's members unrestricted online access to several peer-reviewed sports titles
De Gruyter and Versita cooperate on Eastern Europe
Academic publishers cooperate in the publication and sales of journals from Eastern Europe and books from Eastern and Central Europe
Guide reviews open-access income models
SPARC has published a guide that reviews the sustainability of current and propective open-access publishers.
French Sudoc records added to WorldCat
Nine million records from French academic libraries will be added into WorldCat
Researchers concerned about mixed messages
Researchers are concerned by what they perceive as mixed messages about how they should communicate their research findings
PubMed Central Canada launches
Canadians will soon have free access to their own archive of health science literature
Toby Green will be next chair of ALPSP
Toby Green, head of publishing at OECD, was elected as the next chair of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers