Analysis and opinion

Digital Science recently hosted a Research Impact Spotlight event, the second in our Spotlight series following on from our Open Data Spotlight in March,…

The unique identification of researchers has long been a challenge for those trying to manage and use research information effectively, making it difficult to…

The banks of the Volga in February are cold. Make no bones about it (and my bones were making plenty of complaints as the…

In an article based on a presentation at the recent UKSG conference, Lynne Miller talks about sales and marketing functions working together hand-in-hand

As director of research for FreePint, a global research analyst group and publisher focused on supporting the value of information in the enterprise, I…

Student Julian Wood tells of his experience of the part-time distance Masters in Librarianship course at the University of Aberystwyth, in Wales

By the end of this month research organisations in receipt of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) must be able…

The UK research community punches well above its weight in terms of the quality and quantity of research outputs but these are not systematically…

Sarah Glazer introduces Libraries Without Borders and its Ideas Boxes, which are having a huge impact on learning in the developing world

Lesley K MacLachlan reports from the 12th Annual International Patent Information Conference and Exposition, held from 8 to 11 March in Rome

It has been a year since the last London Book Fair, and although many changes have come to the publishing world since then, one…

Daniela Duca, senior co-design manager at Jisc, says that the latest initiative, Research Data Spring, will help the research community find solutions to some…