Analysis & opinion

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

The copyright law for e-books needs changing, according to discussions at last week's Umbrella meeting. Tom Wilkie reports

19 July 2011

Alastair Dunning of JISC looks at some of the many ways that the public is contributing to digital research today

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

28 April 2011

Tom Wilkie reports from London Book Fair 2011 on Google's book digitisation programme and the impact of the recent US Court decision

20 April 2011

History researchers have a new resource for searching across a wide range of British historical sources. Sharon Howard describes the Connecting Histories project and gives advice to people undertaking similar projects

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