David Weinberger is senior researcher at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and has been instrumental in the development of ideas about the impact of the web. Shortly before his recent keynote presentation at the OCLC EMEA Regional Council Meeting in Florence, he spoke with Sarah Bartlett about the library-sized hole in the Internet and how a library graph might help to fill it
Analysis & opinion
19 February 2015
On 12 and 13 February, professionals from the cultural heritage and tech communities across the world gathered in Paris at the National Library of France for the 2015 EuropeanaTech Conference. Imogen Greenhalgh and Gregory Markus report
17 February 2015
Springer Science and Business Media CEO Derk Haank opened proceedings at the 2015 ASA Conference in London, with a challenging speech entitled 'Subscription agents: Partners or a nuisance?'
17 February 2015
Oliver Double, senior lecturer and head of drama at the University of Kent in the UK, describes the foundation of the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive
22 January 2015
In principle the benefits of sharing data, by which I mean the digital or analogue sources that underpin research findings, are undeniable, writes Verena Weigert, senior technology manager at Jisc
08 January 2015
While successive policy announcements by UK government and research funders have kept open access (OA) high on the agenda for UK researchers and universities, is it a similar priority for their European counterparts? By Mafalda Picarra, PASTEUR4OA project officer, Jisc
15 December 2014
Lorraine Estelle, executive director digital resources and divisional CEO of Jisc Collections, Jisc
According to conservative estimates, UK higher education institutions are paying £160m per year for subscriptions to peer-reviewed academic journals
10 December 2014
Jodie Bell of Taylor and Francis asks how important is social media as a communication tool?
27 November 2014
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, head of data and HSS publishing in the Open Research team, and Amy Bourke, corporate communications manager at Nature Publishing Group, report on the first research data conference for early career researchers hosted by Scientific Data and Nature Publishing Group
26 November 2014
The cost to research organisations of making the transition to open access has so far been the object of little attention, says Rob Johnson of Research Consulting
17 November 2014
The discourse on open access to research data is aligned with the notion of rigorous science and the societal and economic benefits obtained from it
14 November 2014
Securing a bright future for libraries and their users, by Fiona Leslie, EMEA marketing manager at OCLC
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