Analysis and opinion

Ian Borthwick considers academic and professional publishing and the challenges for the future

Web platform facilitates collaboration between primary care physicians, specialists and patients, writes Silvia Orte

A new initiative promises to solve the problem of identifying researchers, writes Neil Jacobs of JISC

Pervasive barriers restrict women's participation in science and technology fields even in the wealthiest nations, says a new report. Susan Elan finds out more

Andy Richardson considers why publishers need to update their contracts, rights and royalties processes to make the most of e-book opportunities

Jim Russell reveals how a project is helping print-disabled researchers gain access to the books they need in formats they can use

Antoni Felguera and Marc Torrent report on a European project to help open up public data

Sian Harris spoke at last week's ALPSP conference about the challenges for science and technology journalists of accessing scholarly content. See her slides and…

In conversations at the Special Libraries Association meeting in July, Tom Wilkie heard a variety of views about the future of the learned journal

Academic libraries need to evolve to continue to meet the needs of their users in an open-access world, reports Sian Harris

Citations play a big part in assessing a journal's quality but what happens when many of those citations come from papers authored by that…

With the annual ALPSP conference approaching, we asked Audrey McCulloch, the new chief executive of the industry organisation, three questions about how she ended…