Metadata project attracts funding
Earlier this year Soutron and partners picked up a share of £3 million of UK government funding to help develop a way for organisations…
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EPUB 3 launches but devices may not be ready
During the Frankfurt Book Fair the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) announced the completion of EPUB 3, a major revision to the standard interchange…
Access, review and changing brains
‘We are still thinking of this internet revolution in terms of a 1998/99 Bill Gates vision,’ stated Frank Schirrmacher, publisher of the German newspaper…
Integrate, not separate, social media
Five years ago, I wrote an article for Research Information about Web 2.0 in scholarly publishing. At the time, ‘Web 2.0’ was the buzziest…
Breaking down monograph borders
There was a time when publishers were completely separate from each other. But, as the possibilities of the internet have grown, the boundaries between…
Evolution, revolution or something else?
It’s hard to imagine a group of, say, furniture manufacturers or chocolate makers gathering regularly to discuss whether their industry will exist in five…
Scientific research helps oil and gas exploration
A wealth of resources from the Geological Society of London have been added to Elsevier’s Geofacets tool to help serve the oil and gas…
Store for safekeeping
Ten years ago, many in scholarly publishing worried about digital preservation, but didn’t know what to do. Preservation solutions were nigh on non-existent and…
A place for everything?
In 1991, the world’s first online, open-access (OA) repository, arXiv, was born. Superseding a multinational email distribution list, the repository for high-energy physics (HEP)…
Making knowledge accessible
The Library of Alexandria opened its doors around 2,300 years ago, with a mission to collect the entire world’s printed works in one place.…
Licensing in an online world
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, authors and publishers who held copyrights for text works became increasingly concerned with changes in printing and duplication…
The problem with measuring Twitter
Web 2.0 sites and technologies are increasingly recognised as important tools for the research community. They offer both new networking opportunities and the ability…