European magazine publishers publish a five point appeal to policy makers.
Posted 21 March 2011
Copyright law in Europe is evolving at a 'dazzling pace' and more change is expected.
Posted 18 March 2011
The New York Times digital subscription model has been announced, and widely debated.
Posted 18 March 2011
French authors and publishers have failed to reach an agreement regarding electronic rights.
Posted 17 March 2011
The European Information Association has announced the winners of its awards for Excellence in European Information Provision.
Posted 16 March 2011
The microblogging service celebrates its birthday by blogging some boggling statistics.
Posted 15 March 2011
The site, dedicated to librarians, offers new features and the chance to win a Kindle!
Posted 14 March 2011
Research report looks at the current usage figures and predicts trends in social networking in the EU5 countries.
Posted 14 March 2011
Mendeley, the academic research tool, is offering a $10,001 prize for a winning app.
Posted 10 March 2011
Talis Information, the library software division of the Talis Group, has been acquired by Capita Software Service.
Posted 4 March 2011
Thomson Reuters' 'Research in View' aggregates and standardises data from disparate sources to provide a unified database.
Posted 4 March 2011
Unannounced antitrust inspections held in e-book companies.
Posted 2 March 2011
Pearson's preliminary 2010 results show strong growth in digital revenues.
Posted 1 March 2011
McKinsey surveyed 4,500 web users in Europe and the US to explore the value they are getting from their 'free' web activity.
Posted 1 March 2011
The literary archive of John le Carre, author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and more than 20 other novels, has been gifted to Oxford's Bodleian Library.
Posted 25 February 2011
The European Commission is considering the idea of lowering Value Added Tax rates for online media.
Posted 18 February 2011
An open project seeks to make it easier to use Creative Commons content appropriately.
Posted 18 February 2011
FreePint has published two research reports that explore corporate and individual attitudes to mobile content.
Posted 17 February 2011
Cambridge University Press announces the launch of African Bibliography as a fully-searchable online database.
Posted 17 February 2011
Payment service will enable publishers to 'have control over pricing of content' says Google.
Posted 16 February 2011
A study conducted in eight countries reports that 72% of European web users download or watch online news video.
Posted 15 February 2011
The Financial Times reports that TweetDeck is close to being taken over by Silicon Valley's UberMedia.
Posted 15 February 2011
Sage has acquired four journals from Palgrave Macmillan as both publishers seek to focus their publishing programmes.
Posted 10 February 2011
Wiley's Open Access programme will publish primary peer reviewed research in the life and biomedical sciences.
Posted 10 February 2011
Investment to help deliver efficencies through shared services in cloud computing infrastructure and applications.
Posted 9 February 2011
The open access journal New Journal of Physics (NJP) now features video abstracts.
Posted 7 February 2011
Germany's online population is the largest in the EU.
Posted 4 February 2011
The UK's Research Information Network (RIN) has published the second part of its research report into the use of ejournals by researchers in the UK.
Posted 3 February 2011
Springer's new service enables online access to review copies.
Posted 3 February 2011
Five million digital objects to be made available via Europeana Libraries project.
Posted 3 February 2011
Dailymotion, the French video sharing website, has announced that it is to stream live news from several networks.
Posted 2 February 2011
Google announces its plans to expand in Europe in 2011.
Posted 26 January 2011
European cultural portal plans dramatic growth in next five years, aims to engage users via social media.
Posted 25 January 2011
German media group has ambitions in the education market.
Posted 21 January 2011
EU Data Protection laws must be modernised, says former UK Information Commissioner.
Posted 18 January 2011
Over 30,000 rare early books held by the National Library of the Netherlands are to be digitised.
Posted 16 January 2011
Report finds cultural digitisation offers potential economic benefits.
Posted 15 January 2011
The Financial Times has launched a premium online news/analysis service focused on the emerging world
Posted 11 January 2011
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announces launch of Scientific Reports - an open access, online publication
Posted 11 January 2011
In December 2010 Firefox overtook Microsoft's Internet Explorer to become Europe's number one browser
Posted 7 January 2011
ProQuest claims acquisition will 'accelerate the process of serious research'
Posted 6 January 2011
Two major flotations are predicted - but not confirmed
Posted 6 January 2011
Competition to deliver news and magazines to mobiles hots up
Posted 3 January 2011
What were the top social media news stories of 2010?
Posted 23 December 2010
Grants awarded to innovative libraries in developing countries
Posted 17 December 2010
Up to 600 jobs lost at Yahoo
Posted 17 December 2010
‘New kind of scientific information enterprise' will provide tools for scientists
Posted 15 December 2010
Gartner predicts that worldwide sales of e-readers will total 6.6 million units by the end of 2010.
Posted 13 December 2010
New tool provides insight into science topic usage and trends
Posted 9 December 2010
FT customers with a corporate licence will be able to access Financial Times journalism via the Bloomberg Professional service
Posted 9 December 2010