A coalition of 75 nonprofit publishers has made a statement opposing any legislation that would 'abruptly end a publishing system that has nurtured independent scientific inquiry for generations'.
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Open-access petition presented to EC
20 February 2007
The petition calling on the European Commission to adopt polices to guarantee free public access to research results has been delivered to the EU Commissioner for Science and Research.
SirsiDynix CEO resigns
20 February 2007
Patrick Sommers is resigning from his position of chief executive officer of library-management system company SirsiDynix.
Pharmaceutical companies plan increasing e-journals emphasis
20 February 2007
A survey of major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies has revealed that electronic journals play a key role in communicating the research results of such companies.
ProQuest joins CSA
15 February 2007
Cambridge Information Group (CIG) has acquired ProQuest Information and Learning, which it will combine with its CSA subsidiary.
Public library signs up for Wiley's STM resources
08 February 2007
The New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library has licensed Wiley's peer-reviewed journals.
Germany's researchers gain more archive information
08 February 2007
Ovid and Elsevier are providing researchers across Germany with access to scientific journal and database archives.
Princeton University joins Google's library project
08 February 2007
Princeton University, USA, has joined the Google Library Project and will digitise approximately one million public-domain books from its collections.
VISTA and Ingenta merge
06 February 2007
Two major technology providers are joining together to form Publishing Technology.
Social-science publishers pick ScholarOne
06 February 2007
Emerald and Multilingual Matters have both chosen ScholarOne's Manuscript Central as their online peer-review systems.
Wiley completes Blackwell acquisition
05 February 2007
Wiley has finalised its acquisition of Blackwell Publishing.
Over 15,000 sign open-access petition
01 February 2007
The petition urging the European Commission to support open access has attracted over 15,000 signatories in its first two weeks.
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