October/November 2007

John Murphy profiles Elsevier's free science search engine, Scirus

Isidro Aguillo explains how university websites can be compared and why this gives meaningful insight into the institutions research output

The high-energy physics community wants all of its published research to be freely available to everybody. Jens Vigen reports on how a radical new initiative hopes to achieve this

Archiving presentations from meetings can open up access to cutting-edge research and educational resources, writes Joshua Illig

Tensions between advocates and opponents of open access increase with the launch of a new partnership that is aimed at protecting the integrity of scientific research, reports Nadya Anscombe