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
Analysis & opinion
16 May 2011
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
28 April 2011
Tom Wilkie reports from London Book Fair 2011 on Google's book digitisation programme and the impact of the recent US Court decision
20 April 2011
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
20 April 2011
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
05 April 2011
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
17 March 2011
Technology can help universities reduce costs while retaining strong values, according to discussions at this week's JISC annual conference
17 March 2011
The New Journal of Physics has recently launched video abstracts. Tim Smith explains why
02 March 2011
David Utting of JISC shares how money from the Higher Education Funding Council for England is being invested to give opportunities to UK researchers to store their data
15 February 2011
Friedel Grant looks at some new initiatives that increase access to the treasures of art galleries, libraries and museums around the world
19 January 2011
The International Federation of Medical Students' Associations is the latest group to join the Right to Research Coalition. Nick Shockey looks at how this coalition is gathering momentum
12 January 2011
Neil Jacobs of JISC welcomes the news of Nature Publishing Group's new open-access platform and considers what this means for research
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