Archived 2007 Industry Trends News - Research Information

2007 Industry Trends news

Technology opens up rare history resources

13 December 2007
Fragile medieval manuscripts detailing the Hundred Years' War between France and England have been digitised by The University of Sheffield and IT experts Tribal.

Commissioner speaks out on digital copyright

13 December 2007
New copyright legislation for digital publishing is imminent, according the European Information Society Commissioner.

Bush vetoes bill with open-access provision

15 November 2007
President Bush says that the LHSS Appropriations Act, 2008, which includes the requirement for NIH-funded research to be made open access, is too expensive.

Researchers tackle research deception

6 November 2007
A team of researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland has investigated how false research results can slip through the editing and peer-review processes.

US Senate approves mandate for access to NIH research

26 October 2007
The US Senate has approved a bill that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require rather than request that the researchers it funds make their results publicly available.

Publishing associations make rules for using orphan works

26 October 2007
Three trade associations have released a joint statement that sets out conditions for using copyright works where the owners of the material cannot be found.

Publishers and funders agree on OA re-use rights

12 October 2007
The UK PubMed Central Publishers Panel has agreed a set of principles for the re-use of documents for which an open-access fee has been paid.

UK biologist groups back well-funded open-access publishing

20 September 2007
A group representing UK biologists has come out in favour of open-access publishing, provided that it is adequately funded and that policies are flexible.

Thomson Scientific predicts Nobel Laureates

14 September 2007
Based on total citations to their works, US-based Thomson Scientific has pinpointed researchers most likely to win a 2007 Nobel Prize

US universities pioneer electronic publishing

12 September 2007
North American universities are leading the world on electronic publishing and open access while European counterparts play catch up, indicates the latest Webometrics survey