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Ringgold and DataSalon partner to analyse publishers' customer data

18 March 2009

Ringgold and DataSalon are partnering to help publishers understand their customers better

Australian libraries pick Coutts

18 March 2009

The Western Australian Group of University Librarians (WAGUL) consortium has selected Coutts

Ex Libris and BCR team up on preservation training

18 March 2009

Ex Libris and Bibliographical Center for Research will offer libraries, archives, and other information organisations foundation training and consulting services in digital preservation

Third Harvard school votes for open-access

17 March 2009

The faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the USA has voted to make all faculty members' scholarly articles publically available online at no charge.

Ovid supplies Transplant Library Database to medical schools in England

17 March 2009

Ovid has struck a deal with the UK's Department of Health to give medical students, faculty, and clinicians access to evidence-based organ transplantation research via the OvidSP platform

Gale and YBP Library Services agree on e-book distribution

17 March 2009

YBP Library Services will distribute Gale's e-books to academic libraries

Microsoft and Creative Commons add ontologies to Word

17 March 2009

Microsoft and Creative Commons have announced an ontology add-on for Word 2007

Peter Norton wins IPI Award

17 March 2009

The 2009 IPI Award will be given to Peter Norton. The announcement was made at the International Patent Information Conference and Exposition, IPI-ConfEx, held in Venice-Mestre in March

US act protects NIH access policy

17 March 2009

President Obama has signed into law an act that makes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy permanent

Engineering librarian wins library research award

16 March 2009

William H. Mischo has won the 2009 Kilgour Award

Programme boosts Canadian research reach

12 March 2009

A new campaign is encouraging Canadian authors to use their campus digital repository to increase the use and impact of their research outputs

Australia's union catalogue synchronises with WorldCat

12 March 2009

OCLC's database synchronisation capability is keeping the Australian National Bibliographic Database synchronised with WorldCat

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