Analysis and opinion

Alastair Dunning discusses how new large-scale data analysis techniques of many different types of data sets can give researchers new insight

How to put the right technology at the heart of education and research was the theme of this year's JISC annual conference

Researchers are increasingly turning to social tools to help in their research. Lawrie Phipps examines what this could mean for researchers and students

Tom Wilkie reports back from the London Book Fair, where rights management was a hot topic for discussion

Neil Grindley of JISC reports on an international project that is making the business case for digital preservation

A new report shows universities how to work out their potential cost savings using various open-access models, writes Sian Harris

Branwen Hide of the UK's Research Information Network (RIN) examines some of the latest challenges and initiatives with the peer-review process

The Dutch higher education sector is convinced of the need for open access, writes Annemiek van der Kuil, project manager of SURFshare in the…

The general public are increasingly being invited to get involved in scientific data collection and view the results. Neil Jacobs of JISC looks at…

Joachim Schöpfel and Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri report back from the International Symposium: Academic Online Resources: Assessment and Usage, which was held in November in Lille,…

Data sharing on virtual servers can aid collaboration and help universities cut costs and carbon emissions, writes JISC's James Farnhill

Tom Wilkie reports back from the Online Information Show in London at the start of December