June/July 2010

MOBILE INFORMATION

Research in an 'app'

With new scholarly information products for smartphones being announced almost daily, Sian Harris looks at why this delivery approach is becoming so popular with information providers and users

BIG DEALS

Big-deal packages squeeze recession-hit libraries

More funding cuts and rising subscription prices mean librarians worldwide have yet to see the worst of the recession, reports Rebecca Pool from this year's UKSG conference in Edinburgh

E-BOOKS

Librarians embrace e-books

E-books are growing in popularity amongst librarians and library users, writes Tom Wilkie from London Book Fair

INTERVIEW

Integrating e-books and searches

Over recent months there have been several big announcements from EBSCO, including the purchase of e-book aggregator NetLibrary from OCLC and the launch of EBSCO Discovery Service. We asked Tim Collins, president and general manager of EBSCO Publishing, to tell us more about the company's plans

LONDON BOOK FAIR

Untangling Europe's digital rights

Tom Wilkie reports back from the London Book Fair, where rights management was a hot topic for discussion

OPEN ACCESS

Project guides OA development in humanities and social science

Saskia C J de Vries reports on a new initiative to explore and promote open-access monographs across Europe

PRODUCT FOCUS

Partnerships enhance scientific discovery

Good interaction between published papers and raw data can speed scientific discovery, write IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg (left) and Judson Dunham, who are involved in creating such links at Elsevier

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Networking sites help align publishers with customers

Academic publishers are starting to take advantage of Web 2.0 tools to interact with their customers. David Stuart looks at how two publishers are using social networking