..., websites and blogs. Findings – Important changes are taking place at the British Library. The new (4th) edition of the STM report is well worth reading. Much again, on open access, particularly the high costs of Gold. Elsevier comes in for some more bad press. Originality/value – The only...

...Joachim Schöpfel Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the impact of the open access movement on the document supply of grey literature. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a comparative survey of five major scientific and technical information centres: The British Library...

.... Mass digitisation projects have helped to some extent but vast amounts still need to be made accessible – and ideally at a modest price or free. The British Library (BL) has a newspaper collection of 750 million pages spanning 300 years, making it one of the largest in the world. A total of £33 million...

...Ian Leadley © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> British Library History Keywords: British Library, History Not that it matters, but most of what follows is true. The title to this piece was "suggested" to me by the Editor, in a manner that was difficult to refuse. He said...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Higher education British Library Strategic alliance emphasises British Library's central role in support of higher education Keywords: Higher education, British Library University students and researchers are heavily dependent upon...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Pricing Document supply British Library Journal publishing Elsevier is much in the news Keywords: Pricing, Document supply, British Library, Journal publishing Elsevier now owns 1,500 STM titles after its acquisition of Harcourt...

... © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Music British Library Interlending printed music and audio collections; concert programmes; autograph scores; performance sets; archives of jazz and popular music; and collections of musical instruments. Approaches have been...

... British Library Databases © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Source: Elsevier Science news release For further details contact Colin Beesley, British Library Press Office,Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ. Tel: +44 1937 546 825; Fax: +44 1937 546 571; E...

... British Library electronic current awareness service now available to the NHS Keywords: British Library, Information services, National Health Service Co-operation between the British Library and the NHS took a major step forward recently when it was announced that the Library's...

...Geoff Smith Following the British Library’s 1998 Strategic Review a unit was set up to develop and co‐ordinate the Library’s Co‐operation and Partnership Programme in the areas of collection development, collection management and access. The unit co‐ordinates existing and new BL co‐operative...

.... Particular topics chosen as the year′s key issues are the British Library strategic plan,charging between libraries, networking, library and information planning, the provision of minority language material and the role of the regional library system. Discusses the implications of redirections in Government...

...David Bradbury Early in 1992 the British Library′s Document Supply Centre decided that it would be timely to review its existing strategy and to develop its strategy to take it into the next century. Describes the process which was undertaken to produce a ten‐year strategic plan for the Document...