Openness debate follows Mendeley acquisition
Elsevier has bought Mendeley. Sian Harris investigates why the companies have chosen to join forces and how the research community is responding
Analysis and opinion
Sunny start for Europeana Cloud
A new project is looking at the use of cloud-based infrastructure to underpin Europe's information, write Friedel Grant and Susan Reilly
Dynamic data presents a world of possibilities
Sarah Bartlett reports from OCLC's recent conference about data
Making discoveries at discovery meeting
Neil Grindley reports from the recent Jisc Discovery Summit 2013 and the parallel discussions on Twitter
Tracking research across the fields
Balviar Notay and Neil Jacobs unveil a way to help repositories improve metadata and how they track research outputs
Drive to gold increases need for APC management
As the gold open-access model gains ground, good management of article processing charges will be increasingly important for institutions, writes Ellen Collins
Is cloud storage the answer to preservation?
As the costs of long-term digital preservation climb, cloud storage doesn't look set to bring them down, reports Rebecca Pool
Five trends for 2013
George Lossius considers five trends for academic publishing in 2013
Information access is crucial for creating and supporting engineers
Access to engineering information is crucial for creating the engineers of tomorrow and supporting the ones of today, write Stephanie Fernandes and Tim Hamer…
The scholarly plumbers
Sian Harris reports from STM's e-Production seminar on the challenges of editorial systems
New ways to measure science?
The development of electronic publishing, and the insistent demands from funders, are fuelling an interest in new metrics for research evaluation. But measuring the…
CASE STUDY: Introducing OA within your portfolio
Kathryn Spiller of BioScientifica Publishing reports on recent experiences of launching an open-access journal