Analysis & opinion

01 July 2013

Many recent policies favour openness, and studies show that researchers as readers value this too. However, as authors, researcher priorities are different. Rachel Bruce and David Prosser consider this gap and what can be done to address it

18 June 2013

Every year Thomson Reuters uses its citation analysis tools to study the research landscape and the researchers within it. Christopher King shares what the latest study says about the field of genomics

05 June 2013

Last year the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution began asking authors to include tweetable abstracts in their submissions. The journal's assistant editor Samantha Ponton explains why and how the journal went about it

03 June 2013

Richard Padley argues the case for scrutinising software submitted with scholarly articles within the peer-review process

31 May 2013

Data sharing and data publication should be more broadly adopted among scholars, argues Norman Wiseman

16 May 2013

So-called 'predatory' publishers can be a thorn in the side for advocates of gold open access but does the stereotype of such publishers present a true picture? Rob Virkar-Yates investigates

12 May 2013

Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka and Ben Showers of Jisc report on a study of how libraries can better support chemists and other researchers

29 April 2013

The proportion of the top papers that appear in elite journals has fallen since the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to a new study by researchers from Canada and Estonia

24 April 2013

The final of the BBC quiz programme University Challenge will be broadcast in the UK next Monday. Alongside the knowledge and expertise of the eight students who have reached the final, the competition reveals an unusual role that a university librarian can play in supporting their institution, writes Sian Harris

11 April 2013

Elsevier has bought Mendeley. Sian Harris investigates why the companies have chosen to join forces and how the research community is responding

20 March 2013

Neil Grindley reports from the recent Jisc Discovery Summit 2013 and the parallel discussions on Twitter

20 March 2013

Sarah Bartlett reports from OCLC's recent conference about data

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