BL's On Demand service offered to institutions in least developed countries.
Posted 3 November 2017
Manchester in the UK has been awarded City of Literature status.
Posted 2 November 2017
The goal of the research is to develop a bespoke tool for librarians and related professionals that would allow them to interlink Linked Data sets.
Posted 26 October 2017
The 2017 Tony Kent Strix Award goes to Maarten de Rijke, the Professor of Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Posted 26 October 2017
The BBC has announced a five-year research partnership with eight UK universities.
Posted 20 October 2017
New British Library exhibition celebrates Harry Potter's 20th anniversary.
Posted 20 October 2017
De Gruyter launches OA journal.
Posted 20 October 2017
UKeiG has announced that the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award winner for 2017 is Christopher Gutteridge, Systems, Information and Web programmer at the University of Southampton.
Posted 12 October 2017
ProQuest Dissertations in Google Scholar; CUP ebooks and journals in Yewno Discover; co-publishing agreement for Springer and Graz University Press.
Posted 9 October 2017
Science Discoveries features research from across De Gruyter journals.
Posted 6 October 2017
EBSCO publishes its Serials Price Projection Report for 2018
Posted 5 October 2017
Emerald Reach aims to deliver high quality open access content.
Posted 5 October 2017
The EU has ordered Amazon to reply €250m it received in a sweetheart deal in Luxembourg.
Posted 5 October 2017
International coalition calls on EU to halt harmful copyright reform; RSC and Publons partner to recognise peer reviewers; De Gruyter launches science news site.
Posted 25 September 2017
ScienceDirect Topics offer a free layer of content on a number of scientific topics.
Posted 23 September 2017
ScienceOpen to host UCL's open access journal programme.
Posted 23 September 2017
Awards for excellence in the design of search and information retrieval products and services.
Posted 23 September 2017
The site, used by researchers to swap papers, is accused of copyright infringement.
Posted 22 September 2017
LIBER publishes guidelines for libraries and consortia.
Posted 8 September 2017
A new exhibition celebrates the British Library's collection of over 6.5 million sound recordings.
Posted 7 September 2017
Employers need to ensure their policies are clear.
Posted 7 September 2017
Scholarly publisher De Gruyter plans to digitise its backlist dating back to 1749.
Posted 7 September 2017
Professor Maristella Agosti to give 2017 lecture in London.
Posted 29 August 2017
Help shape the future of the library field.
Posted 25 August 2017
People in the US who Google depression will see links to a mental health self-assessment quiz.
Posted 25 August 2017
The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) is seeking nominations for this prestigious award.
Posted 24 August 2017
In the USA the youth market for Instagram and Snapchat continues to grow and Facebook loses out.
Posted 22 August 2017
Gartner predicts three digital megatrends that will impact businesses over the next decade.
Posted 21 August 2017
Thomson Reuters launches startup incubator focusing on big data; publisher pilot for managing and tracking author sharing via scholarly collaboration networks; peer review process to be investigated; BBC Monitoring joins OpenAthens; winner of IFLA Green Library Award.
Posted 25 July 2017
Third round of Digital News Initiative fund sees over 20 million EUR granted in 27 countries across Europe.
Posted 21 July 2017
Single log-in aims to make life simpler for tourists and residents alike.
Posted 20 July 2017
India is now Facebook's largest country audience.
Posted 20 July 2017
EU's Data Protection Working Party guidance says employers should not be screening social media as a matter of course.
Posted 20 July 2017
Some improvements being rolled out plus news of planned developments.
Posted 20 July 2017
New functionality being tested in the US before rolling out worldwide.
Posted 20 July 2017
With the summer holidays in mind, budget airline EasyJet has launched Flybraries - a flying book club.
Posted 19 July 2017
Patient data shared without permission.
Posted 6 July 2017
The Obama Foundation is calling for a focus on good digital citizenship to overcome echo chambers.
Posted 6 July 2017
The German parliament has voted to fine social media companies for failing to remove hate speech.
Posted 4 July 2017
$2.7 billion for antitrust misdeeds.
Posted 27 June 2017
The Library and Archives Service of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has announced the release of the digital collection of its journal.
Posted 26 June 2017
The Association of European Research Libraries LIBER and OCLC Research announce a collaborative research study.
Posted 25 June 2017
A round-up of all the news you may have missed including: Elsevier launches Biology Research Network; T&F partner with The Conversation Africa; new case study collection from Emerald; JoVE adds physics; Webcomics and Webcultures archives from the Library of Congress; UK's national sculpture collection to be catalogued - and more.
Posted 25 June 2017
The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) is seeking 2017 nominations for this prestigious award.
Posted 21 June 2017
For two weeks libraries will enjoy unfettered digital access the first book in the series.
Posted 21 June 2017
Collection covers over 20 years of creative work and includes Monty Python notebooks.
Posted 13 June 2017
30 years of festival recordings and other materials donated.
Posted 9 June 2017
Tool focuses on supporting the entire research lifecycle to generate maximum value.
Posted 8 June 2017
One step towards an African digital library.
Posted 30 May 2017
First case of its kind finds someone legally liabable for liking, rather than posting, content.
Posted 30 May 2017