Sian Harris finds out why a treaty on intellectual property and digital rights is causing widespread protests
Analysis & opinion
A recent focus group of postgraduate students has given publishers insight into how postgraduate students use digital and print resources, writes Jenny Kedros
Apple's recent announcements about its tools for interactive textbooks take the company deeper into the world of e-books. Andrew Williams looks at what the news means for publishers and students
Swets and Mendeley have struck a partnership that will integrate the details of institutional library holdings with the Mendeley tool for organising research resources, writes Sian Harris
Sometimes libraries are perceived as resistant to change but in fact they are often at the forefront of innovation, argues Ben Showers of JISC
Matthew Dovey examines the rise in academic geo-apps and the value of crowd sourcing in gathering data for research
Editor Sian Harris spoke about changes in the scholarly publishing industry at Online Information 2011. Read the slides from her talk
Scholarly publishers have many discussions about potential disruption to the industry but what role are researchers playing in industry changes? More than we might at first think, argues Neil Jacobs of JISC
This summer the UK government accepted the recommendations of an independent review into copyright, which included an exception for data and text mining. Joe Hames argues that such an exception could be damaging for publishers
A new European agreement is tackling the challenge of how to revive books and journals that predate the internet without damaging the rights of authors and publishers, write Carlo Scollo Lavizzari and André Myburgh, attorneys-at-law at Lenz Caemmerer
Sian Harris reports back from the ALPSP conference on discussions about the future of the scholarly publishing industry
From standards and support to awarding 'data Oscars', we need to start encouraging researchers to share data, writes Sarah Porter