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Fewer charges for website content
BBC, April 5

The number of UK media groups charging for online content has nearly halved over the last year, according to the Association of Online Publishers (AOP). The association said just 37% of its members now charged for some online content, compared with 63% in 2005.

Microsoft Announces Windows Live Academic Search
Microsoft Press Release, April 11

Microsoft has announced the beta release of its Windows Live™ Academic Search service in seven countries. The new search service is designed to help students, researchers and university faculty conduct research across a spectrum of academic journals. The program is a co-operative effort between Windows Live Search, industry association CrossRef and more than 10 leading publishers. The initial beta release will target the subjects of computer science, electrical engineering and physics, and the company is working with multiple organizations to bring new subjects online in the near future. Windows Live Academic Search will offer peer-reviewed content from leading scholarly societies such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and leading publishers Elsevier and John Wiley & Sons Inc. Windows Live Academic Search can be found at http://academic.live.com and will provide English-language results in select global markets.

Publishers Report Continued Increases in eBook Revenue for 2005
International Digital Publishing forum, April 18

eBook publishers reported increases in eBook revenue over the previous year with a 23% increase in eBook revenues over 2004.   eBook units sold remained even with 2004.  And, eBook titles published increased 20% over 2004. Publishers reported 1,692,964 eBook units sold and $11,875,783 in revenues for 2005.   They also reported 5,242 eBooks published during this time.

British Library secures integrity of digital archive
Computing, 25 April

The British Library is to secure the integrity of its National Digital Library by authenticating electronic documents and other materials. The library is expected to amass up to 300 terabytes of content over the next five years.

Funding bodies seek supplier for UK PubMed Central
Research Information News, April 2006

The Wellcome Trust and a group of major UK biomedical research funding bodies are looking for a supplier to host, manage and develop a UK version of PubMed Central (UKPMC). Based on the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central, the aim of this initiative is to create a stable, permanent, and free-to-access online digital archive of the full-text, peer-reviewed research publications and datasets that arise from the research funded by the organisations involved.

UKPMC will be fully searchable and provide context-sensitive links to other online resources, such as gene and chemical compound databases. It is anticipated that the site, which should be fully operational by the beginning of next year, will handle around one million unique users per month and contain more than 500,000 research articles.

Swiss science organisations sign Berlin declaration
Research Information News, April 2006

A collection of Swiss research institutes and other organisations have signed the 'Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities'. This declaration promotes access to information in the sciences and humanities free-of-charge.

The new signatories are the Rector's Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS), the Conference of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences(KFH), the Swiss Conference of Schools for Teacher Education (SKPH), the Council of the Swiss Scientific Academies (CASS), and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).

By signing the so-called Berlin Declaration, the organisations commit to encouraging researchers to make their 'peer reviewed' journals openly available through personal archiving and to developing a technical infrastructure that permits fast and convenient access to scientific content. Researchers will also receive institutional support for their open-access efforts.

Nielsen BookData and BDS separate their library services
Research Information News, April 2006

In the second half of 2006 Nielsen BookData and Bibliographic Data Services will develop separate data products and services for use by librarians in the UK and overseas. Under the terms of a new working arrangement agreed recently, BookData will no longer market and sell BDS products and the two companies will cease to exchange bibliographic data for use in their products.

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