E-books still have a long way to go before librarians and their customers will be satisfied, reports Tom Wilkie from last month's Special Libraries Association meeting
Analysis & opinion
During its annual meeting in Chicago last month, Tom Wilkie spoke to the Special Libraries Association's next president, Deb Hunt
When it comes to policy-making, teaching and research are still seen as two distinct worlds, but higher-education institutions are finding increasingly sophisticated ways of linking the two in the digital age, writes Amber Thomas
Many publishers lack the infrastructure to manage and pay e-books royalties, writes Andy Richardson
Research4Life, the programme to provide developing-world access to scholarly resources, recently celebrated its tenth birthday. Case studies reveal some of its achievements
A SURF project has helped create a digital home for dying languages, writes Aad van de Wijngaart
A major US vote recently blocked funding for political-science research. Ziyad Marar argues that the social sciences should not be marginalised
The Finch report into access in the UK came out in support of enabling greater access to research findings for both researchers and members of the public but recognised that there will be complex issues along the way
Ben Showers takes a look at how libraries - and their users - can benefit from innovating with library data
A large-scale project into systematic deposit into open-access repositories has revealed increased usage of publisher versions for the articles involved but also came out in favour of gold open access
A large-scale investigation into systematic archiving in open-access repositories is coming to an end but publishers seemed more interested in participating than the researchers themselves, writes Sian Harris
Data is a buzzword today but it can mean many different things, writes Michael Clarke