Analysis and opinion

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

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