Features

01 December 2005

With over 500 customers signing up in its first six months Scopus has plenty of reason to be pleased with its abstracting and indexing database. Now, a year after launch, we ask the company's marketing manager Ginny Hendricks why she thinks the project has been successful

01 December 2005

Research should be the priority (Stevan Harnad)
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Publishers concerns are valid (Sally Morris)

01 December 2005

Michael Mabe, director of academic relations at Elsevier

01 December 2005

Web developers are excited by the way that RSS technology can alert users to new journal articles and other content without them needing to visit dozens of web sites each day but are the users so excited? Industry analyst David Mort investigates

01 December 2005

RFID is becoming a popular way to monitor materials in libraries and elsewhere but the use of this wireless technology has prompted questions about users' privacy. Dr Christian Kern, the head of systems development at Switzerland's Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems does not believe there is any cause for concern

01 December 2005

Dr Leni Helmes, head of IT development at FIZ Karlsruhe, describes a project with the Max Planck Society to support open access to the society's research information

01 October 2005

Peter Shepherd, project director of COUNTER, describes this international effort to create standards for measuring how online information is used

01 October 2005

Electronic archives of published and unpublished results are becoming popular with academic institutions but they are not without controversy. Nadya Anscombe investigates

01 October 2005

Automating the way that data is indexed, sorted and structured can save publishers and societies considerable time and expense, writes Philip Paterson of UK-based SomCom

01 October 2005

French text-mining company Temis believes that working in multiple languages is essential for getting the most out of electronic information

01 October 2005

Marketing is the latest task to be outsourced to specialist agencies, according to Pinar Erzin

01 July 2005

Nature Publishing Group is building upon a strong foundation

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