Jerry Cowhig, managing director of IOP Publishing, has been made a Member of the British Empire (MBE) 'for services to science' in the Queen's Birthday Honours list
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Google will scan Austrian books
16 June 2010
Austria's national library has struck a 30-million-euro deal with Google to digitise 400,000 copyright-free books, spanning 400 years of European history
Elsevier buys Collexis
10 June 2010
Elsevier has bought Collexis Holdings, which develops semantic technology and knowledge discovery software
OA uptake still small, says OUP study
10 June 2010
Uptake of the open-access option on Oxford Journals' papers is still small five years after the publishers' Oxford Open initiative first launched
First organisations endorse KBART recommendations
28 May 2010
The American Institute of Physics, Ex Libris, Serials Solutions and OCLC are the first organisations have endorsed the Phase I recommendations of the KBART Working Group
Text-access project expands to Southern and Eastern Europe
24 May 2010
The European IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project has welcomed 11 new partners from Southern and Eastern Europe
CUP grants worldwide digital rights to Bookshare
24 May 2010
Cambridge University Press academic and scholarly books will become accessible to people with print disabilities thanks to a new licensing deal with Bookshare
Digital time capsule hidden in Swiss Alps
24 May 2010
The Planets project has deposited a time capsule containing a record of the 'Digital Genome' inside Swiss Fort Knox - a high security digital storage facility hidden deep in the Swiss Alps
Oceanography library partners with Google
24 May 2010
Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, described as the world's largest oceanography library, have been digitised and are being made publically-accessible
OUP supplies journals to Indian colleges
18 May 2010
OUP supplies research journals to Indian colleges
AMA picks new VP of periodic publications
18 May 2010
Elizabeth Jones is the new senior vice president of periodic publications at the American Medical Association
TEMIS opens UK office
18 May 2010
Text analytics provider TEMIS is opening a UK office to better serve publishing and life sciences clients
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