Features

02 February 2015

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

02 February 2015

The last year has been an eventful one for subscription agents. Sharon Davies reports on the latest trends and developments

02 February 2015

As organisations race to meet today`s digital preservation challenges, are uncertainties over cost and necessity still stifling progress? Rebecca Pool finds out

02 February 2015

Global use of institutional repositories is on the rise - but the trend is not without its challenges, writes Nadya Anscombe

02 February 2015

Delegates at IPI Confex will hear about the latest efforts to standardise at least one part of the patent application process. Tim Gillett reports

12 December 2014

Ellen Collins considers a recent survey of researcher attitudes to monographs and asks what the future is for the academic book

12 December 2014

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

12 December 2014

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

12 December 2014

Mark Patterson reports back from the COASP meeting that was held in Paris in September

12 December 2014

Olivier Dumon looks at big data and its potential to change the European educational landscape

12 December 2014

David Stuart explores the potential role of the research library in the data age

12 December 2014

Sharon Davies investigates library management systems in research libraries today, librarians` and researchers` experiences of using them, and future trends

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