Marydee Ojala, editor of ONLINE: Exploring Technology & Resources for Information Professionals, writes about the recently introduced Research Works Act and the outcry which it has caused.
UKSG is again offering a number of free places for students at the 2012 UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition.
A reminder that the deadline for applications for the UKSG/NASIG John Merriman Award 2012 is Monday 30 January.
A few last places remain on the UKSG seminar, 'Usage Statistics for Decision Making', on Thursday 2 February 2012 in London.
The KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) project group is asking library and consortia representatives for their views.
The USA's University Leadership Council has just published a report, 'Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services'.
NISO has announced the availability of a draft update of SERU which is available for public comment until 19 February 2012.
Jill Emery and Graham Stone are asking for feedback on the 6 'TERMS: techniques for electronic resource management' now posted on the blog.
FSC have appointed ACCUCOMS to dedicate a sales representative to activities in Scandinavia, Finland and the United Kingdom.
Books24x7 is now working with OCLC to add Books24x7 library MARC records to WorldCat.
Credo Reference has formed a new partnership with McFarland, an independent publisher of academic and non fiction books.
OCLC has launched OCLC WorldShare License Manager, aimed at helping libraries meet the challenges and complexities of e-resource management.
Swets and Mendeley have announced the launch of Mendeley Institutional Edition powered by Swets.
EBSCO has released EBSCONET Usage Consolidation, a tool designed to help librarians collect, consolidate, and report on online collection usage.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has selected Atypon's Literatum publishing platform to power a new platform for the ASCE Library.
Ex Libris Group has announced that in recent months a number of academic and research libraries in North America have selected Primo.
TEMIS and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) have signed a licence and services agreement.
The Western Australian Group of University Librarians Consortium has selected Ingram Content Group as sole library content supplier.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Library of France, has selected EBSCO Discovery Service as its library discovery solution.
Wiley-Blackwell has announced the launch of 'Cancer Medicine', a new open access journal.
Inderscience has recently published the first issues of five new titles.
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of four new publishers in its digital preservation archive.
The 'European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation' has become the 'European Journal of Preventive Cardiology'.
EDP Sciences and Cambridge University Press have announced that five more journals have made the move to Cambridge Journals Online.
Maney Publishing's journal of the month in January is the 'Hispanic Research Journal'.
Chandos Publishing Online is a new electronic resource of library and information science, knowledge management and business information.
Credo Reference has announced a partnership in which SWETS will incorporate Credo Reference into the SwetsWise e-book catalogue.
The website and underlying software of figshare, a community-based open data platform for scientific research, has been relaunched.
GSE Research is looking for authors, from both academia and practice, who have something to say and would like a publishing outlet.
The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Bloomsbury Publishing have announced the development of IZA World of Labor.
EBSCO Publishing and the American Psychological Association have signed an agreement that will enable PsycTESTS to be accessible via EBSCOhost.
The new Facet Publishing catalogue is out now and available to download.
Ed Braniff, Charles Griswold, Robert Iannello, Bill Matthews, Michael McFarland, James C Smith and Jillian Tweet have been appointed to new positions.
Elsevier and the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Libraries have founded a fellowship programme for the study of 16th -18th century scientific scholarship and publishing.
Scientific American and Google are expanding the Google Science Fair awards honours in 2012.