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HEALTHCARE
Listening to researchers is crucial to information planning
For the information professional working in the medical world, demands are intense but cash is tight. Rebecca Pool talks to GE Healthcare's Tracey Evans about its Knowledge Centre
PUBLISHING SERVICES
Marketing can help publishers weather the recession
Charlie Rapple reveals the challenges and opportunities of marketing in a recession and how a new web-based community could help
E-BOOKS
Study reveals e-textbook successes
Sian Harris reports back from London Book Fair on the latest in JISC's e-Book Observatory project
PROFILE
Partners in open access
John Murphy finds out why start-up company Co-Action Publishing has chosen the open-access model
STANDARDS
Helping to do right with rights
Mark Bide, project director of ACAP, explains how publishers can make their rights and those of their authors clear to search engines and why he believes such efforts are required
CASE STUDY
Open-source search tool helps clippings database
The UK's Newspaper Licensing Agency is using Flax enterprise search software in its new clippings service
INTERVIEW
Licences are valuable tools
Alicia Wise, chief executive of the UK's Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and also on secondment to the Publishers Association, explains why licences are particularly valuable now that so much content is digital
RIGHTS
Publishers relax author rights agreements
The internet is changing the ways that publishers negotiate rights with authors. Sian Harris reports from the London Book Fair





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