Facebook planning a central place for users to locate apps.
Posted 16 May 2012
DCMS is exploring options to transfer the administration of PLR.
Posted 10 May 2012
The BBC's Roly Keating will join the BL in September 2012.
Posted 10 May 2012
Munich University Department votes to cancel subscriptions.
Posted 8 May 2012
Researchers at LISU calling for participation from academic librarians.
Posted 7 May 2012
Official launch of data analytics service.
Posted 5 May 2012
Evidence emerging about the benefits of OA to research articles.
Posted 3 May 2012
Scottish university is named UK's number one for library and information management studies.
Posted 2 May 2012
CodeForScience competition looking for apps and mash-ups that use Elsevier content.
Posted 26 April 2012
Report provides guidance for libraries, archives and museums on user generated metadata.
Posted 25 April 2012
Netflix, which launched in the UK and Ireland earlier this year, plans to increase its European presence.
Posted 25 April 2012
Project seeks to discover well used and respected LIS research resources.
Posted 19 April 2012
The US digital textbook rental service will target UK students.
Posted 18 April 2012
The libraries are planning to digitise 1.5 million pages of ancient texts.
Posted 17 April 2012
Successful fundraising campaign enables BL to acquire the earliest intact European book.
Posted 17 April 2012
Law students at an Austrian university have brought about changes in Facebook's data disclosure policies.
Posted 13 April 2012
The European Commission wants to explore the best possible framework to realise the potential benefits of the Internet of Things.
Posted 13 April 2012
JISC InfoNet research uncovers the costs to universities of fulfilling Freedom of Information requests.
Posted 12 April 2012
The Wellcome Trust is to launch a free to view open access journal called eLife.
Posted 10 April 2012
Newspapers collaborating on shared payment system.
Posted 9 April 2012
New platform will provide CC0 access to NPG's publication data.
Posted 9 April 2012
The information literacy group of IFLA releases statement about the value of media and information literacy skills and makes recommendations for action.
Posted 4 April 2012
Google TV set to launch in France in September 2012.
Posted 3 April 2012
JISC Collections has published a survey to into the future of the monograph.
Posted 2 April 2012
New corporate content platform provides customised access to 5.6 million research documents.
Posted 30 March 2012
The Wellcome Trust intends to 'get tough' to ensure timely OA publication.
Posted 30 March 2012
Five months after its release in the US, 'Touch' is to launch in Europe.
Posted 28 March 2012
Agreement on authors' rights for new digital subscription models for ebooks.
Posted 23 March 2012
Consortium of Italian university libraries to make library records available on WorldCat.
Posted 22 March 2012
e-book sales, currently at 1% in France, predicted to grow and 'shake up' the book sector.
Posted 22 March 2012
Higher education institutions to be ranked by researchers and academics.
Posted 16 March 2012
Initiative seeks to increase discoverability of OA works.
Posted 6 March 2012
Attempts to reach a centralised agreement for ebook lending have failed.
Posted 6 March 2012
Skoobe is German publishers' response to the demand for 'popular' ebook content.
Posted 6 March 2012
Collaboration between National Library of Jerusalem and Germany part of a 'legacy plan'.
Posted 5 March 2012
Agreement ensures that the complete collections of Dutch public libraries will be accessible worldwide via WorldCat.
Posted 2 March 2012
Up to two years of tweets will be available for market research.
Posted 1 March 2012
Expanded content will result from agreements with leading publishers from around the world.
Posted 29 February 2012
Version 1.0 launched - project calling for volunteer involvement.
Posted 22 February 2012
Russian search engine Yandex has announced its 2011 financial results.
Posted 22 February 2012
ebrary has made its 2011 Global student ebook survey available free of charge.
Posted 22 February 2012
With the increased amount of data, a competition sets out to find creative 'article apps'.
Posted 22 February 2012
Open access to doctoral theses is 'good for research'.
Posted 21 February 2012
PIC 2012 to focus on 'online, offline, local and global' information.
Posted 21 February 2012
An award for IL project that has made a real impact to be awarded in April 2012.
Posted 20 February 2012
Research project into value of libraries to academic departments.
Posted 17 February 2012
Open Linked Data is a 'win win' for providers and customers says Europeana.
Posted 17 February 2012
News broadcasters continue to evolve their social media policies as they attempt to maintain a 'joined up' news service.
Posted 15 February 2012
Agreement reached between Japan and European Patent Offices to improve access to patent information.
Posted 14 February 2012
Ways forward for European copyright reform discussed at 'Towards Flexible Copyright' event.
Posted 14 February 2012