Features
Recent years have seen significant challenges for the world of peer review, with increasing pressures on editors tasked with finding trusted and reliable reviewers - and growing concerns about the incidence of peer review fraud and retractions resulting from this. Here, five companies developing editorial and peer review systems tell us how they are facing the future
The last year has been an eventful one for subscription agents. Sharon Davies reports on the latest trends and developments
As organisations race to meet today`s digital preservation challenges, are uncertainties over cost and necessity still stifling progress? Rebecca Pool finds out
Global use of institutional repositories is on the rise - but the trend is not without its challenges, writes Nadya Anscombe
Delegates at IPI Confex will hear about the latest efforts to standardise at least one part of the patent application process. Tim Gillett reports
Ellen Collins considers a recent survey of researcher attitudes to monographs and asks what the future is for the academic book
In an article based on his presentation at the recent STM Frankfurt conference, Jonathan Foster asks how early-career researchers and publishers can help each other
At the recent Internet Librarian International conference in London, Karin Bystrom of Uppsala University in Sweden emphasised the need for discussion in closing the gap between librarians and publishers
Mark Patterson reports back from the COASP meeting that was held in Paris in September
Olivier Dumon looks at big data and its potential to change the European educational landscape
David Stuart explores the potential role of the research library in the data age
Sharon Davies investigates library management systems in research libraries today, librarians` and researchers` experiences of using them, and future trends