Analysis and opinion

Olivier Dumon looks at big data and its potential to change the European educational landscape

Ellen Collins considers a recent survey of researcher attitudes to monographs and asks what the future is for the academic book

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Nature Publishing Group has announced the first of its own-brand journals to move to fully open access. We ask why the publisher has taken…

Scholarly publishers are accustomed to dealing with big data and need the computing power to deal with it. Sian Harris asks Elsevier about its…

Attempts to build a shared data centre for the UK's research and education institutions have been ambitious but unsuccessful - until now. Dan Perry…

Michelle Pauli examines a new project that will enable researchers to explore the future internet

The UK's system for assessing research and allocating money has added new open-access requirements. Neil Jacobs looks at what this means for researchers in…

Hijacking of journal websites is a worrying side product of scholarly communication's move online and a topic that Iran-based journalist and researcher Mehrdad Jalalian…

As the world of scientific publishing changes, authors need to be prepared for post-publication peer comments on their work, argues Anna Sharman

Jacqui Hodgkinson considers the merits and limitations of different approaches to extracting life-science information from published research

With hype waning for MOOCs and the backlash in full swing, what does the post-MOOC environment look like for Higher Education? Simon Linacre explores…