Coordinated national approaches to developing open data strategies will help UK researchers to forge ahead on the international stage, says Phil Richards
Analysis & opinion
Publisher opportunities for text and data mining in an uncertain copyright environment, by Roy Kaufman of Copyright Clearance Center
There has been much ado about the next-generation integrated library system, says Neil Block, VP for discovery innovation academic libraries at EBSCO
At the recent Internet Librarians International conference in London, Karin Byström of Uppsala University in Sweden emphasised the need for discussion in closing the gap between librarians and publishers. Here we reproduce a summary of her presentation
Mark Patterson reports back from the COASP meeting that was held in Paris in September
In an article based on his presentation at the recent STM Frankfurt conference, Jonathan Foster asks how early-career researchers and publishers can help each other
Olivier Dumon looks at big data and its potential to change the European educational landscape
Ellen Collins considers a recent survey of researcher attitudes to monographs and asks what the future is for the academic book
Swets Information Services has filed for bankruptcy
Nature Publishing Group has announced the first of its own-brand journals to move to fully open access. We ask why the publisher has taken this move at this time
Scholarly publishers are accustomed to dealing with big data and need the computing power to deal with it. Sian Harris asks Elsevier about its supercomputing technology and how it came to open up this resource as a service to researchers
Attempts to build a shared data centre for the UK's research and education institutions have been ambitious but unsuccessful - until now. Dan Perry describes a new partnership that aims to overcome the challenges of creating a shared data centre and make it easier for institutions to weigh up the advantages of using the data centre