Analysis and opinion

Swets has launched a service to help institutions manage their article-processing charges for gold open-access articles

Friedel Grant reports back from the LIBER 2013 conference where data publishing and crowd sourcing were major themes

Dynamic documents, semantic technologies and better signposting in scholarly resources are some of the ways libraries and publishers can help researchers, according to a…

Many recent policies favour openness, and studies show that researchers as readers value this too. However, as authors, researcher priorities are different. Rachel Bruce…

Every year Thomson Reuters uses its citation analysis tools to study the research landscape and the researchers within it. Christopher King shares what the…

Last year the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution began asking authors to include tweetable abstracts in their submissions. The journal's assistant editor Samantha…

Richard Padley argues the case for scrutinising software submitted with scholarly articles within the peer-review process

Data sharing and data publication should be more broadly adopted among scholars, argues Norman Wiseman

So-called 'predatory' publishers can be a thorn in the side for advocates of gold open access but does the stereotype of such publishers present…

Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka and Ben Showers of Jisc report on a study of how libraries can better support chemists and other researchers

The proportion of the top papers that appear in elite journals has fallen since the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to a new…

The final of the BBC quiz programme University Challenge will be broadcast in the UK next Monday. Alongside the knowledge and expertise of the…