Analysis and opinion

Moving beyond open access policy development to greater alignment and effectiveness. By Mafalda Picarra, project officer at Jisc

Louise Edwards reports on the major themes of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, held in Cape Town

Since 2012 open access has been in overdrive, says Vicky Gardner of Taylor & Francis

The user experience for accessing scholarly content should be as simple and frictionless, says Richard Padley

Unfettered access to research outputs is the goal of the open access movement and the benefits that this will bring, says Neil Jacobs of…

The Jisc Research Data Spring project has been making waves in the research community since it kicked off last November, writes Daniela Duca

Publishers are at the centre of a particularly vicious storm right now, writes Steve Thompson

Adapted from Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker, by John J. Regazzi

Vitek Tracz, chairman and founder of F1000, explains how the internet is being used to share new scientific research quickly and openly

Eduard Hovy, from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, is one of a team working on DARPA's Big Mechanism project. Prof Hovy is working with…