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Daniel Johnston, of Publons, says academic editors are coming under increased pressure to find over-worked researchers willing to get involved in the peer review…

Twelve months ago, Research Information reported on the evolving role and trends of subscription agents and how they had been affected by the transition…

Digital preservation remains one of the most critical challenges facing scholarly communities today. From e-journals and e-books to emails, blogs and more, electronic content…

‘You know that expression, “Build it and they will come”? Well, that’s not true for institutional repositories,’ said Tom Cramer, chief technology strategist and…

The issue of using consistent naming conventions in patent applications is likely to be one of the hottest topics at IPI Confex, which will…

Academic monographs have been getting a lot of attention in policy circles of late. In the UK, HEFCE, Jisc and the AHRC have all…

The days when students completing a PhD could expect to spend a few years doing a postdoc abroad before walking into a faculty position…

During the 2013 UKSG conference, T Scott Plutchak urged librarians and publishers to get to know each other outside of the buyer/seller relationship, and…

In most previous years, the annual meeting of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association has taken place in eastern Europe. This year, however, the…

Imagine a world in which teachers could analyse the answers given in exam papers not just to find out how much their students have…

Sharing and long-term preservation of research data are increasingly important to the research process, strengthening the process of science and maximising a funder’s return…

Library management systems (LMSs) are in a time of transition, moving from legacy models to new-generation systems. Recent years have witnessed a growth of…