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
Analysis & opinion
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
18 October 2011
A new European agreement is tackling the challenge of how to revive books and journals that predate the internet without damaging the rights of authors and publishers, write Carlo Scollo Lavizzari and André Myburgh, attorneys-at-law at Lenz Caemmerer
22 September 2011
Sian Harris reports back from the ALPSP conference on discussions about the future of the scholarly publishing industry
21 September 2011
From standards and support to awarding 'data Oscars', we need to start encouraging researchers to share data, writes Sarah Porter
10 August 2011
JISC's executive secretary, Malcolm Read, comments on the recent UK report into peer review and the role of data in evaluating research quality
19 July 2011
Alastair Dunning of JISC looks at some of the many ways that the public is contributing to digital research today
19 July 2011
The copyright law for e-books needs changing, according to discussions at last week's Umbrella meeting. Tom Wilkie reports
18 July 2011
Bernie Folan reveals some findings from a meeting of academic librarians and early-career researchers late last year
15 June 2011
Brian Kelly of the UK Web Focus challenges the higher-education community to go beyond open access to published research in the pursuit of openness
17 May 2011
The amount of research data and the possibilities of using it in new ways are growing enormously. Jeremy Sharp of JANET(UK) reveals what today's researchers require from their infrastructure
16 May 2011
Research Information editor Sian Harris spoke about 'E-books for scholarly research' at the recent E-books and E-content 2011 conference at University College London
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