ARM addressing the engineering skills gap
October saw the launch of ARM Education Media, a subscription-based digital content hub offering education kits. Khaled Benkrid tells us more
Analysis and opinion
Burgeoning Bulgaria
Eastern Europe is turning into a technological hub, and academic publishing in Bulgaria and the region is no exception, writes Iliyana Kuzmova
Next-generation research environments
Chris Brown asks whether the environments in which we conduct our research are up-to-scratch
Recognising the role of women in cancer research
The issue of female representation in STEM occupations has been a hot topic in recent years, writes Katherine Single
‘A software geek at heart’
There are a growing number of new tools and services available to support academics throughout the research cycle. Here, Emily Marchant from Cambridge University…
The crUX of user experience
Interactive scholarly publishing systems need to do much more than just look pretty, argues Ian Curson
Agents of value: the evolving role of librarians in India
The role of the librarian in India is transforming. Shafina Segon and Nicola Bacon describe two initiatives to change technology and research methodology in…
Technical singularity and the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany
When technologies arrive on the market, not only are most libraries interested; they also test a few and integrate them in selected applications and…
Structured XML versus the blob of text
Roy Kaufman and Michael Iarrobino explain why text miners should heed the data quality imperative
Journal publishing in the south: a story from Bangladesh
Southern journals need to be self-critical and creative, and should comply with standards recognised internationally, writes Haseeb Md. Irfanullah
Experts unite to debate international developments in research
International advances in digital scholarship was the theme of the joint conference hosted in July by Jisc and the Coalition for Networked Education (CNI)…
Reasons to be cheerful
The EU referendum result does not have to be a catastrophe, if handled actively and positively, writes Mark Carden