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
Metadata from ECONIS—the online catalogue for the German National Library of Economics—will be searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service
Posted 9 December 2010
Google has entered the ebooks market.
Posted 8 December 2010
ProQuest and Hatfield House team up to bring private and political documents gathered by Elizabeth I's advisors to the web
Posted 8 December 2010
The Dutch are Europe's 'most intensive' internet users.
Posted 3 December 2010
Flexibility is the key to the future for info pros according to SLA President
Posted 1 December 2010
Library Systems Manager from University of Huddersfield selected for honour
Posted 1 December 2010
EC Vice-President for the Digital Agenda says healthy competition is the internet's best friend but traffic management practices should be transparent; it should be easy for unhappy consumers to switch providers
Posted 1 December 2010
New product line will expand ebook offering on SpringerLink
Posted 1 December 2010
Provides information on investment and acquisition opportunities in China
Posted 1 December 2010
JISC's new Guide presents the business case and the practicalities of releasing records for open use.
Posted 22 November 2010
'Instant Previews' provides a graphic overview of search results; 'Refine' is 'a power tool for data wranglers'
Posted 16 November 2010
Bloomberg Briefs cover Economics, Hedge Funds, Mergers and Structured Notes
Posted 2 November 2010