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Over recent years there has been a massive growth in research carried out in China and elsewhere and published in international, English-language journals. It…

What is the best format for presenting scholarly information? Is the PDF dead? These are some of the questions that a lively and entertaining…

Internet connectivity to Africa and other developing-world regions is improving at a dramatic pace, but what good is connectivity if people are not equipped…

The relentless growth in mobile device penetration and usage is convincing many providers of scholarly information and related services to develop some kind of…

‘The art of a country reflects the psychology of its people. The quality of the art reflects the richness or the poverty of its…

When Roberta D’Alessandro, professor of Italian at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and her team discovered that old dialects from parts of Italy have…

‘Journals aren’t interchangeable like pills and pillars,’ stated Anne Murphy at the UKSG meeting held in April this year. She and colleagues at Adelaide…

Many things can happen when two friends go out for a drink. However, it is rare that the result of a night out is…

Over recent years, an increasing number of library and information professionals have integrated social media sites and services into their professional offerings. Whereas making…

Over the past decade or so, open-access (OA) journal publishing has transformed from a niche concept to a hot topic for consideration by every…

The year 2011 was an important one for open access (OA), with significant growth in both the number of OA journals being published, and…

Social networks, blogs, wikis and other patient communities are revolutionising access to medical information, the relationships of patients with their physicians, and the communication…