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‘We saw that, by applying existing standards, semantic enrichment would allow meaningful identification of the actual content.’So wrote Richard Kidd, then manager for editorial…

When Isabel was three years old she caught chicken pox. This is a common enough thing to happen to a child but she didn’t…

Simon Hodson’s job remit throws up an interesting issue. Some of the key aspects of being programme manager – managing research data at JISC…

The web has spawned a host of new publishing formats and genres, and both researchers and publishers have had to adapt to the changing…

Imagine you are developing a chipset for a new smartphone, working out the best material for encasing a reactor or designing the foundations of…

Frans van Ette, director of business development, SwetsEnd users want their content on every possible device and they want a unified discovery solution so…

Abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases have played an important role in finding scholarly information for many years. Originally these indexes were in bound, print…

Open access (OA) has been making the headlines recently – and not just in industry-specific publications. The interest stems from large-scale studies and big…

ACTA, SOPA, the Hargreaves Review... the list of recent developments in the world of copyright goes on. But since when did copyright become such…

Everywhere today people are using mobile devices for things other than traditional phone calls and text messages. ‘I’ve got an app for that’ or…