Sarah Bartlett reports from OCLC's recent conference about data
Analysis & opinion
A new project is looking at the use of cloud-based infrastructure to underpin Europe's information, write Friedel Grant and Susan Reilly
As the gold open-access model gains ground, good management of article processing charges will be increasingly important for institutions, writes Ellen Collins
Balviar Notay and Neil Jacobs unveil a way to help repositories improve metadata and how they track research outputs
As the costs of long-term digital preservation climb, cloud storage doesn't look set to bring them down, reports Rebecca Pool
George Lossius considers five trends for academic publishing in 2013
Access to engineering information is crucial for creating the engineers of tomorrow and supporting the ones of today, write Stephanie Fernandes and Tim Hamer of the IET
Sian Harris reports from STM's e-Production seminar on the challenges of editorial systems
The development of electronic publishing, and the insistent demands from funders, are fuelling an interest in new metrics for research evaluation. But measuring the quality of science is still a difficult task as Tom Wilkie heard at the STM Innovations seminar in London last month
Kathryn Spiller of BioScientifica Publishing reports on recent experiences of launching an open-access journal
Valerie Matarese reflects on the emerging new profession of language professionals and calls for greater recognition of the people who facilitate research writing, especially with non-Anglophone researchers
Neil Jacobs considers analytics and its role in research management and assessment