Analysis and opinion

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

From standards and support to awarding 'data Oscars', we need to start encouraging researchers to share data, writes Sarah Porter

JISC's executive secretary, Malcolm Read, comments on the recent UK report into peer review and the role of data in evaluating research quality

The copyright law for e-books needs changing, according to discussions at last week's Umbrella meeting. Tom Wilkie reports

Alastair Dunning of JISC looks at some of the many ways that the public is contributing to digital research today

Bernie Folan reveals some findings from a meeting of academic librarians and early-career researchers late last year

Brian Kelly of the UK Web Focus challenges the higher-education community to go beyond open access to published research in the pursuit of openness

The amount of research data and the possibilities of using it in new ways are growing enormously. Jeremy Sharp of JANET(UK) reveals what today's…

Research Information editor Sian Harris spoke about 'E-books for scholarly research' at the recent E-books and E-content 2011 conference at University College London

Tom Wilkie reports from London Book Fair 2011 on Google's book digitisation programme and the impact of the recent US Court decision