Content discoverability: serendipity and supporting less experienced users
At the Researcher to Reader conference, in London in February, Tom Beyer gave a talk on supporting serendipity in the content discovery process
Analysis and opinion
Throwing a fresh light on secret intelligence
British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873 to 1953, with a particular focus on the inner workings of British intelligence services,…
Why are we struggling to get an editor for our journal?
Haseeb Md. Irfanullah considers the journal publishing landscape in Bangladesh and why it is so difficult to attract editors to southern journals
Total Open Access: the new gospel of scientific communication
Recent open access initiatives come across as unyielding, one-sided and unwilling to compromise, says Rafael Ball
‘Don’t reject global talent from the UK’
Laura Wheeler reports on a panel debate aimed at ensuring that the UK remains at the heart of global science and engineering
Primary sources ‘essential for academic research’
Critical thinking is essential if we are to make the correct use of historical resources when publishing scholarly literature, writes Jessica Lagan
Standing out in a big heap of published research
With so many papers published each year there is great value in actively sharing published work, says Ben Mudrak of Research Square
Science is our future – it deserves support
Former Cambridge MP Julian Huppert bemoans government proposals to freeze, or even cut, research funding in the UK
Helping scientists navigate a complex research landscape
Publishers need to be closely associated with academia to increase the impact of research, says Elsevier's David Neal
Popsicles and publishing
Deepika Bajaj of Redlink explains why ice cream sellers and academic publishers have much more in common than you would think
Getting to grips with squishy boolean
Lizzie Sparrow was intrigued by the term after hearing it used at Internet Librarian International, and decided to find out more
Can better data lead to better science?
Amy Bourke-Waite and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz report from Springer Nature's second Publishing Better Science through Better Data conference