Features
Wireless technology is helping researchers to get more out of their libraries and is even influencing the choice of furniture in the British Library’s café, writes Siân Harris
Whether books will follow journals on the same route from print to electronic is up for debate, as Tom Wilkie and Nick Morris found out at the recent London Book Fair
A tool to normalise information about chemical compounds is the first result of a partnership between Elsevier MDL and Temis
Sabine Brünger-Weilandt, president and CEO of Germany's Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe.
Leading STM database providers are starting to offer visualisation tools to help interpret search results. David Mort reveals how this could help existing users to get more from their information and encourage new users
There is a growing awareness of the need to preserve digital information. Tim Tamminga of Endeavor Information Systems describes how a new partnership with Sun plans to address this issue.
The changing nature of research resources and the demands of its users are having a knock-on effect on the companies that help libraries to manage this information. Siân Harris discovers OCLC PICA's perspective on the library-management sector
Meaningful collaborations may be necessary for taking research information to the developing world, writes Vanessa Spedding
The wealth of free information on the web is attractive to engineers but Siân Harris discovers that peer-reviewed literature and databases can still have a vital role in the research process
Michael Koenig, professor in the College of Information and Computer Science and Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, USA...
Providing the information that users want, when and how they want it, were the themes that dominated discussions at the recent Online Information conference. Tom Wilkie and Nick Morris report