Analysis and opinion

Ashutosh Ghildiyal explains why the reader must come first in scholarly publishing

Katherine Single lays out the many social media options now available for the world of scholarly communications

Global library organisation OCLC explains why linked data is essential for research institutions

Hannah Baldwin offers her insights from this year's Researcher to Reader conference held in London

Nadine Nero and Aileen Irons share their experience of the Envision mentoring programme at IOP Publishing 

An exclusive interview with Charleston Conference founder Katina Strauch as she publishes her memoirs

Rafael Ball says the library is indispensable as a bridge builder for the development of the industry

Niki Scaplehorn reflects on a three-day 'hackathon' involving 20 students, postdocs, and early-career researchers

Jörg-Rüdiger Sack discusses how artificial intelligence and other new technologies are transforming academic research

Ashleigh Faith discusses data quality for discoverability, analytics and AI using linked data ontologies

Everyone can learn from the wider teaching of Indigenous Knowledges, writes Jackie Greatorex

Alex Freeman, founder of Octopus.ac, explains the platform's new feature integrating government ‘areas of research interest’