In conversations at the Special Libraries Association meeting in July, Tom Wilkie heard a variety of views about the future of the learned journal
Analysis & opinion
04 September 2012
Academic libraries need to evolve to continue to meet the needs of their users in an open-access world, reports Sian Harris
29 August 2012
Citations play a big part in assessing a journal's quality but what happens when many of those citations come from papers authored by that journal's editorial board? Paul Peters considers the need to establish guidelines for appropriate citation practices
22 August 2012
With the annual ALPSP conference approaching, we asked Audrey McCulloch, the new chief executive of the industry organisation, three questions about how she ended up in scholarly publishing and the best - and worst - things about the industry
20 August 2012
E-books still have a long way to go before librarians and their customers will be satisfied, reports Tom Wilkie from last month's Special Libraries Association meeting
20 August 2012
The findings from five JISC-funded projects on mobile delivery are about to be shared with the academic community. Ben Showers says that they will highlight a much wider debate
07 August 2012
During its annual meeting in Chicago last month, Tom Wilkie spoke to the Special Libraries Association's next president, Deb Hunt
29 July 2012
When it comes to policy-making, teaching and research are still seen as two distinct worlds, but higher-education institutions are finding increasingly sophisticated ways of linking the two in the digital age, writes Amber Thomas
11 July 2012
Many publishers lack the infrastructure to manage and pay e-books royalties, writes Andy Richardson
09 July 2012
Research4Life, the programme to provide developing-world access to scholarly resources, recently celebrated its tenth birthday. Case studies reveal some of its achievements
09 July 2012
A SURF project has helped create a digital home for dying languages, writes Aad van de Wijngaart
02 July 2012
A major US vote recently blocked funding for political-science research. Ziyad Marar argues that the social sciences should not be marginalised
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