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Daniel Smith, head of academic publishing, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)We currently have 300 books and 4,500-5,000 chapters on our e-book platform…

Funding agencies, publishers, librarians and learned societies need to think radically and work creatively together in order to realise more compelling information products and…

Data centres are helping to spread and reinforce a culture of openness and data sharing among researchers, according to the recent report, ‘Data centres:…

There has been plenty of excitement about publishers opening up their data to be used in new applications. The vision is that new tools…

At the start of another year newspaper headlines around the world are filled with stories of ‘Eurozone crisis,’ ‘mounting debt,’ ‘government cuts’ and ‘double-dip…

Is there a learning black market in higher education? This intriguing question emerges from early findings of the JISC-funded Visitors and Residents project [1],…

Digital newspaper archives have transformed scholarship and the use of historic newspapers in research. Where it once took months to read through huge, bound…

Much discussion about scholarly research focuses on the western world. Top research institutions in the west are very good at publicising what they do…

If you are a researcher wanting to know about the latest inventions in your field there is a country that is becoming increasingly unwise…

‘The book will never die,’ declares Springer in its advertisements and exhibition banners. A bold statement and one that book lovers in all walks…

Social networking sites are an increasingly important part of many people’s lives. Such sites are springing into existence for every niche and occasion, from…