August/September 2010

Ten years after its first beta version, Microsoft's SharePoint is now gathering momentum in organisations around the world. Herve Basset reviews what this means for information professionals

MetaPress has recently launched a beta version of a new content management and hosting system, Mozaic. To help share ideas about this major project, the company's R&D team turned to Google Wave but since this article was first published Google announced it will stop this tool. Jeff Stewart describes the benefits of using Google Wave in development and invites readers to discuss the impacts of Google's new decision

Collaboration on organising and sharing information helps the research community to innovate, says Sarah Porter, of JISC

In the first of a two-part look at publishing in China, Siân Harris asks people involved in research and in supplying research content in China about the challenges for finding out and communicating research results

It is still early days for librarians networking with users online, but there are plenty of potential benefits if librarians and their organisations get it right, writes David Stuart

Cash and a lack of responsibility hinder the progress of digital preservation initiatives, reports Rebecca Pool

New large-scale data analysis techniques of many different types of data sets can give researchers new insight, writes Alastair Dunning