Digitisation could help economy, says ARL director
The executive director of the Association of Research Libraries has urged the US government to finance a large-scale digitisation project as a way to help the economy
The executive director of the Association of Research Libraries has urged the US government to finance a large-scale digitisation project as a way to help the economy
The Association of American Publishers has welcomed US legislation that aims to safeguard the rights of authors and publishers of copyrighted, peer-reviewed scientific journal articles.
Twelve projects have been approved for the SURFshare programme. The projects aim to promote knowledge dissemination via the internet and contribute to improving the Dutch knowledge infrastructure
A new report reveals that research institutions could make dramatic cost savings if they followed an open-access, rather than subscription, publishing route, writes Sian Harris
The chief executive of the British Library, Lynne Brindley, has challenged the UK government that it must include preservation in its vision of a 'Digital Britain'
What is the cost and who pays for scholarly communication? The answers could come as a surprise, writes Rebecca Pool
The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has expressed its interest in joining SCOAP3, the open-access high-energy physics consortium
The Collections Trust and the Strategic Content Alliance are working together to find out what impact orphan works have on the delivery of services to the public
TBI and Talis have picked the European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society for a pilot project to test the application of semantic Web and Web 2.0 technologies to journal articles
Arie Jongejan, CEO of Swets, has retired.