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Today's content has no respect for yesterday's silos. Documents and assets end up on pages, screens, and devices?or, inevitably, all of the above. That means extra work for designers and developers to constantly manage and repurpose material. It also means extra pressure for them to operate outside the comfort zones of their original disciplines.

The third in a series of ALPSP surveys undertaken to establish current scholarly publishing practices and designed to track changes in policy and practice since 2000, has been published by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing.

CollegeWikis, a student-run web messaging and information platform, raised $2 million in series A funding.

A year ago, when Vivisimo launched Velocity 6.0, it focused heavily on incorporating collaborative features into the enterprise search solution. This time around, as Vivisimo today launches Velocity 7.0 "the theme is conceptual search?it's about discovery and personalization," says Rebecca Thompson, vice president of marketing.

Google Inc. lost two copyright lawsuits in Germany over displaying photos and artworks as thumbnails in a preview of search results.

A group of research libraries are collaborating to create a repository of their digital collections, including millions of books.

MetaPress, a provider of scientific, technical, and medical content, announced a new partnership agreement with Woodhead Publishing Limited, an independent, international, scientific, and technical publishing company based in the United Kingdom.

Simplexo, an open source enterprise search provider, and Ingres, a provider of open source database management software and support services, announced a partnership.

eZ Systems, an open source content management software company, has introduced updates to its Partner Network.