Analysis and opinion

When it comes to policy-making, teaching and research are still seen as two distinct worlds, but higher-education institutions are finding increasingly sophisticated ways of…

Many publishers lack the infrastructure to manage and pay e-books royalties, writes Andy Richardson

A SURF project has helped create a digital home for dying languages, writes Aad van de Wijngaart

Research4Life, the programme to provide developing-world access to scholarly resources, recently celebrated its tenth birthday. Case studies reveal some of its achievements

A major US vote recently blocked funding for political-science research. Ziyad Marar argues that the social sciences should not be marginalised

The Finch report into access in the UK came out in support of enabling greater access to research findings for both researchers and members…

Ben Showers takes a look at how libraries - and their users - can benefit from innovating with library data

A large-scale project into systematic deposit into open-access repositories has revealed increased usage of publisher versions for the articles involved but also came out…

Data is a buzzword today but it can mean many different things, writes Michael Clarke

A large-scale investigation into systematic archiving in open-access repositories is coming to an end but publishers seemed more interested in participating than the researchers…

In the early-mid 1980s the young Andy Richardson was honing his skills as a 'bedroom programmer'. Three decades on, his company Influential Software helps…

Tom Wilkie reports back on discussions about e-textbooks at the London Book Fair