Analysis and opinion

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

Frederique van Till of JISC looks at ways to reconnect researchers with the information about their research

Simon Hodson, e-Research programme manager at JISC in the UK, examines how technology and funding policies have changed the ways that researchers share data

Sian Harris finds out about a new social network to help physicists work together and share information

The journal Cell is leading a push to redefine how peer-reviewed articles are accessed and used online. Sian Harris spoke to Emilie Marcus, editor…

There has been an important shift in how students interact with and shape the world of scholarly communication with the release of a statement…

Research released in May suggests that universities and colleges are falling behind their students in the use of new technologies. Malcolm Read, executive secretary…

Three international programmes aimed at giving free or low-cost information access to researchers in the world's poorest countries have seen impressive growth in their…

BioMed Central's Journal of Biology hopes to end 'peer review nightmare', writes Rebecca Pool