Analysis and opinion

A new JISC report argues that current copyright law limits the possibilities of text mining for unlocking science

Sian Harris finds out why a treaty on intellectual property and digital rights is causing widespread protests

A recent focus group of postgraduate students has given publishers insight into how postgraduate students use digital and print resources, writes Jenny Kedros

Apple's recent announcements about its tools for interactive textbooks take the company deeper into the world of e-books. Andrew Williams looks at what the…

Sometimes libraries are perceived as resistant to change but in fact they are often at the forefront of innovation, argues Ben Showers of JISC

Swets and Mendeley have struck a partnership that will integrate the details of institutional library holdings with the Mendeley tool for organising research resources,…

Matthew Dovey examines the rise in academic geo-apps and the value of crowd sourcing in gathering data for research

Editor Sian Harris spoke about changes in the scholarly publishing industry at Online Information 2011. Read the slides from her talk

Scholarly publishers have many discussions about potential disruption to the industry but what role are researchers playing in industry changes? More than we might…

This summer the UK government accepted the recommendations of an independent review into copyright, which included an exception for data and text mining. Joe…

A new European agreement is tackling the challenge of how to revive books and journals that predate the internet without damaging the rights of…

Sian Harris reports back from the ALPSP conference on discussions about the future of the scholarly publishing industry