In the early-mid 1980s the young Andy Richardson was honing his skills as a 'bedroom programmer'. Three decades on, his company Influential Software helps publishers deal with their data and reporting requirements. In the first of our informal 'Three-Question Spotlight' interviews, he explains how he turned his programming skills from home gaming to publishing
Analysis & opinion
23 April 2012
Tom Wilkie reports back on discussions about e-textbooks at the London Book Fair
15 March 2012
A new JISC report argues that current copyright law limits the possibilities of text mining for unlocking science
13 March 2012
Sian Harris finds out why a treaty on intellectual property and digital rights is causing widespread protests
28 February 2012
A recent focus group of postgraduate students has given publishers insight into how postgraduate students use digital and print resources, writes Jenny Kedros
10 February 2012
Apple's recent announcements about its tools for interactive textbooks take the company deeper into the world of e-books. Andrew Williams looks at what the news means for publishers and students
17 January 2012
Swets and Mendeley have struck a partnership that will integrate the details of institutional library holdings with the Mendeley tool for organising research resources, writes Sian Harris
17 January 2012
Sometimes libraries are perceived as resistant to change but in fact they are often at the forefront of innovation, argues Ben Showers of JISC
11 January 2012
Matthew Dovey examines the rise in academic geo-apps and the value of crowd sourcing in gathering data for research
15 December 2011
Editor Sian Harris spoke about changes in the scholarly publishing industry at Online Information 2011. Read the slides from her talk
21 November 2011
Scholarly publishers have many discussions about potential disruption to the industry but what role are researchers playing in industry changes? More than we might at first think, argues Neil Jacobs of JISC
19 October 2011
This summer the UK government accepted the recommendations of an independent review into copyright, which included an exception for data and text mining. Joe Hames argues that such an exception could be damaging for publishers
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