UNESCO endorses IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries - December 14, 2011
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has endorsed the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Manifesto for Digital Libraries at its General Conference 2011. The Manifesto provides principles to assist libraries in undertaking sustainable and interoperable digitisation activities to bridge the… Read More
Book Industry Study Group announces new Policy Statement on Best Practices for Identifying Digital Products - December 8, 2011
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has announced the publication of a new Policy Statement detailing best practices for assigning ISBNs to digital products. Developed over the past 18 months within BISG's Identification Committee, BISG Policy Statement POL-1101 addresses the critical need to reduce product identification… Read More
PSP signs document delivery agreement with British Library - December 2, 2011
The Executive Council of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP), Association of American Publishers (AAP), has endorsed a new cross-border licensed document delivery service for educational uses developed by the British Library. Launching January 1, 2012, the International Non-Commercial Document… Read More
The British Library in deal with Elsevier and Taylor & Francis for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchers - December 1, 2011
The British Library, the national library of the UK, has signed an agreement with publishers Elsevier and Taylor and Francis for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchers. The agreement governs the supply of copies of articles from the British Library's Document Supply Service to… Read More
European Commission to adopt measures for Open Data Strategy - November 28, 2011
The European Commission (EC) will adopt an Open Data Strategy on November 29, consisting of a package of measures including regulatory measures. This would include a modification of the existing directive on the reuse of public sector information and deployment measures such as the creation of… Read More
IOP welcomes EPSRC statement on Shaping Capability funding initiative - November 28, 2011
The Institute of Physics (IOP) has welcomed the latest statement from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on its funding policy. In that statement, EPSRC confirmed that research excellence would remain preeminent in assessing funding applications. The President and staff of IOP, together… Read More
Three EIFL partner institutions sign the Berlin Declaration - November 23, 2011
Not-for-profit organisation Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) has announced that three more EIFL partner institutions have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and the Humanities. The institutions are: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana), University of Belgrade (Serbia)… Read More
NHS in England to develop Framework Agreement for medical content procurement - November 23, 2011
The NHS in England is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement which identifies the providers of medical and healthcare related published content, products and services. The Framework Agreement will list the providers and agreements from whom the NHS and its partners can purchase with confidence… Read More
ALPSP endorses new British Library INCD licensing framework - November 8, 2011
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has endorsed the soon-to-be launched British Library INCD Service for the supply of copies of articles to non-commercial end users via not-for-profit libraries outside the UK. The INCD Service is underpinned by agreements with publishers, for which… Read More
Routledge tries new author rights policy for Library and Information Science Journals - November 1, 2011
Routledge, the social science and humanities imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, has announced a two-year pilot initiative for the library and information science research community. The deal allows contributors to its library and information science journals to retain the copyright to their work and… Read More
