Louise Edwards reports on the major themes of the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, held in Cape Town
Analysis & opinion
Since 2012 open access has been in overdrive, says Vicky Gardner of Taylor & Francis
The user experience for accessing scholarly content should be as simple and frictionless, says Richard Padley
Unfettered access to research outputs is the goal of the open access movement and the benefits that this will bring, says Neil Jacobs of Jisc
The Jisc Research Data Spring project has been making waves in the research community since it kicked off last November, writes Daniela Duca
Publishers are at the centre of a particularly vicious storm right now, writes Steve Thompson
It is well acknowledged that the library is no longer the starting point of the research process, says David Armstrong
Adapted from Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker, by John J. Regazzi
Vitek Tracz, chairman and founder of F1000, explains how the internet is being used to share new scientific research quickly and openly
Eduard Hovy, from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, is one of a team working on DARPA's Big Mechanism project. Prof Hovy is working with Anton Yuryev, a consultant with Elsevier R&D Solutions' professional services team, using Elsevier's natural language processing tools to develop automated 'deep-reading' technologies that support research into cancer drugs
Digital Science recently hosted a Research Impact Spotlight event, the second in our Spotlight series following on from our Open Data Spotlight in March, writes Jonathan Adams
The unique identification of researchers has long been a challenge for those trying to manage and use research information effectively, making it difficult to link publications, data and other research activities to the right researcher, write Verena Weigert and Rob Johnson