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LIBRARIAN SKILLS

Programming skills could transform librarians' roles

To keep pace with information changes and the needs of users, librarians need some programming skills, argues David Stuart

ACCESS

Industry tackles polarisation in access debate

At the ALPSP annual conference in September Fred Dylla of American Institute of Physics revealed how a new group from across the industry is seeking to find common ground in the open access stand-off, writes Siân Harris

DATA SHARING

Data-sharing culture has changed

Simon Hodson of JISC examines how technology and funding policies have changed the ways that researchers share data

LICENSING

Untangling digital rights

The possibilities that networked electronic resources offer to researchers are extensive but do they know what they are allowed to do with the content available to them? Siân Harris and John Murphy ask about the challenges of licensing and rights management

CONFERENCE REPORT

Conference brings OA community together

Caroline Sutton reports back from the First Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing held recently in Sweden

OPINION

We need to convince the taxpayer

Science communication should go beyond peer-reviewed journals and conferences if the public are to engage with scientific developments, argues Jonathon Rees

REFERENCE SEARCHING

Information integration may not be enough

Integrating information in academic libraries is very important but some users don't know how to find this information in the first place. Credo Reference is taking on the challenge of enticing users to their libraries' resources, writes John Dove

INTERVIEW

Marketing to readers

Jacek Ciesielski, general manager of Poland-based publisher Versita believes that article-level marketing helps attract good papers and boost journal impact factors