Analysis and opinion

Alastair Horne reports back on discussions in the scholarly information stream of this year's London Book Fair

Olivier Dumon looks at the role of social media in helping match research content to researchers

In his presentation at the recent London Book Fair Tom Wilkie provided an overview and update on some key trends in scholarly communication

A new platform is helping to link researchers with potential candidates for research studies. Matt Terrell describes the Call for Participants project and looks…

In an article based on his presentation at the UKSG conference earlier this month, Ernesto Priego gives a researcher-focused perspective on 'impact'

The team behind the ISSN identifiers have developed a new resource to help people assess the quality and relevance of open-access resources. Sian Harris…

In discussions about gold open access and the risk of paying twice, The Royal Society of Chemistry's approach is often mentioned. Max Espley and…

Carolyn Alderson of Jisc Collections looks at some approaches to acquiring e-books

Mark Carden reports from this year's Association of Subscription Agents conference

Teresa Tocewicz takes a look at how visualisation can be used most effectively for data analysis

The Wellcome Trust has released on figshare the details of article-processing charge (APC) payments that it made in 2012-13. The majority of the payments…

At the end of last year Research Information editor Sian Harris was guest on a Copyright Clearance Center webinar on open access. She reports…