JISC's executive secretary, Malcolm Read, comments on the recent UK report into peer review and the role of data in evaluating research quality
Analysis & opinion
Alastair Dunning of JISC looks at some of the many ways that the public is contributing to digital research today
The copyright law for e-books needs changing, according to discussions at last week's Umbrella meeting. Tom Wilkie reports
Bernie Folan reveals some findings from a meeting of academic librarians and early-career researchers late last year
Brian Kelly of the UK Web Focus challenges the higher-education community to go beyond open access to published research in the pursuit of openness
The amount of research data and the possibilities of using it in new ways are growing enormously. Jeremy Sharp of JANET(UK) reveals what today's researchers require from their infrastructure
Research Information editor Sian Harris spoke about 'E-books for scholarly research' at the recent E-books and E-content 2011 conference at University College London
Tom Wilkie reports from London Book Fair 2011 on Google's book digitisation programme and the impact of the recent US Court decision
History researchers have a new resource for searching across a wide range of British historical sources. Sharon Howard describes the Connecting Histories project and gives advice to people undertaking similar projects
Annual Reviews has just published a white paper into the challenges of information overload and how it is and will be addressed, writes Charlie Rapple
Libraries house vast amounts of unstructured data and this is increasing as user-generated content becomes more important. John Pomeroy reports from the recent MarkLogic UK summit about some of the challenges and opportunities with this type of information
The New Journal of Physics has recently launched video abstracts. Tim Smith explains why