Analysis and opinion

Open-access publisher Frontiers was recently the subject of a post in 'Beall's list'. Sian Harris asks the company's CEO for her perspective

Many discussions at the Online Information 2013 conference focused on the changes and opportunities for information professionals, writes Sian Harris

Rebecca Perchard reports on a project that aims to give research managers more insight into funding patterns

Studying social media can give detailed insight into human behaviour. Rob Procter describes a new project that aims to help researchers analyse this data

John Peters discusses why he supports green open access but has major concerns about gold

On 10 October Research Information editor Sian Harris gave a talk on 'Ten trends in scholarly publishing' at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Here is…

Rob Johnson of Research Consulting provides some open-access tips for publishers

A new book considers information literacy. One of the book's authors, Andrew Walsh, looks at some of the challenges of defining this subject too…

Earlier this year SAGE and Jisc organised a librarian roundtable to examine the implications of managing article-processing charges. Research Information editor Sian Harris, who…

Sian Harris reports back on discussions about data sharing at the recent ALPSP conference

Melinda Kenneway reports on a new initiative that aims to help authors and institutions increase the visibility and impact of their research

Cathy Miller reports on discussions about research data in the cloud at the University of Adelaide