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The article offers international news briefs. Elsevier announced last June 16, 2005, their partnership with UKB for the provision of significant scientific and medical information regarding the 200,000-strong academic community in The Netherlands. Last June 15, 2005, the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication issued a press release, to notify interested parties that it had joined with Lund University Libraries to adapt and extent the existing Electronic Library Information Navigator system. A library system and service provider in Europe, OCLC PICA, recently acquired Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH in a move designed to combine technologies and enhance services for libraries in Europe.

Provides information pertaining to the Co-operative Archive of Serials and Articles (CASA), a three-year project to develop mechanisms, services and systems to support a cooperative European metacatalog of serials and articles. Project background and goals; Technical aspects to be evaluated during the first months of the project's second phase.