All publicly funded scientific research will be made freely available by 2014 according to a government announcement to be made later today (16th July).

Universities minister David Willetts has said the free access to taxpayer-funded science research will take two years before it begins “fully feeding through”, but that...

Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has asked current chair of the Arts Council Dame Liz Forgan to step down and has launched a search for a replacement to lead the sector through a "challenging period".

Forgan, who has been in her current position since February 2009, will stay on until the end of January 2013, and recruitment...

The Booksellers Association has pledged to write to the chief executives of all 390 local authorities to call on them to lower business rates for bookshops. The move comes following a call in the House of Commons for booksellers to be given a special business rate incentive to set up on the high street.

During the six-hour Commons...

The Government emphasis on reading for pleasure could be behind an uplift in sales to school libraries, claims bookseller Marilyn Brocklehurst of the Norfolk Children's Book Centre.

She said: "The pronouncements by the government about reading for pleasure are having an impact; schools are asking us for support to develop...