Analysis & opinion

20 August 2012

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

07 August 2012

During its annual meeting in Chicago last month, Tom Wilkie spoke to the Special Libraries Association's next president, Deb Hunt

29 July 2012

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

11 July 2012

Many publishers lack the infrastructure to manage and pay e-books royalties, writes Andy Richardson

09 July 2012

Research4Life, the programme to provide developing-world access to scholarly resources, recently celebrated its tenth birthday. Case studies reveal some of its achievements

09 July 2012

A SURF project has helped create a digital home for dying languages, writes Aad van de Wijngaart

02 July 2012

A major US vote recently blocked funding for political-science research. Ziyad Marar argues that the social sciences should not be marginalised

20 June 2012

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

19 June 2012

Ben Showers takes a look at how libraries - and their users - can benefit from innovating with library data

30 May 2012

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

16 May 2012

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

16 May 2012

Data is a buzzword today but it can mean many different things, writes Michael Clarke

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