Alastair Dunning discusses how new large-scale data analysis techniques of many different types of data sets can give researchers new insight
Analysis & opinion
How to put the right technology at the heart of education and research was the theme of this year's JISC annual conference
Researchers are increasingly turning to social tools to help in their research. Lawrie Phipps examines what this could mean for researchers and students
Tom Wilkie reports back from the London Book Fair, where rights management was a hot topic for discussion
Neil Grindley of JISC reports on an international project that is making the business case for digital preservation
Branwen Hide of the UK's Research Information Network (RIN) examines some of the latest challenges and initiatives with the peer-review process
A new report shows universities how to work out their potential cost savings using various open-access models, writes Sian Harris
The Dutch higher education sector is convinced of the need for open access, writes Annemiek van der Kuil, project manager of SURFshare in the Netherlands
The general public are increasingly being invited to get involved in scientific data collection and view the results. Neil Jacobs of JISC looks at how this might benefit scientific understanding
Joachim Schöpfel and Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri report back from the International Symposium: Academic Online Resources: Assessment and Usage, which was held in November in Lille, France
Data sharing on virtual servers can aid collaboration and help universities cut costs and carbon emissions, writes JISC's James Farnhill
Frederique van Till of JISC looks at ways to reconnect researchers with the information about their research