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E-books are no longer a future topic or a niche idea but an established part of modern life. Even two years ago when consultant…

Web 2.0 technologies have provided a host of new ways for researchers to publish, share, and discuss research in their field. The formal publication…

Scholarly research is becoming increasingly global and the publishing industry that serves it mirrors that trend. Major publishers have offices in many countries around…

Earlier this year an announcement from the international publisher Springer highlighted an interesting trend in scholarly publishing. The editors of Zeitschrift für Planung und…

The Google Art project launched in February is a dazzling virtual tour through the galleries of some of the world’s most famous museums. It…

More than ever, researchers interact only with the electronic version of a research journal – a situation underlined by the way in which electronic-usage…

Values are key for higher education, according to a senior university leader at the recent JISC annual conference. Eric Thomas, vice chancellor of the…

An increasingly wide range of organisations are starting to recognise the advantages of making some of their data publicly available online, and allowing external…

Internet search engines, whatever we think of them, have changed user expectations of searching for information. Expert databases and other information services and platforms…

Scott Wasinger is the senior director of sales, eBooks and audiobooks at EBSCOWe continue to see growing interest in e-books. In the face of…

News that one of the top scientific publishers, Nature Publishing Group (NPG), is to launch an open-access platform has been received well by researchers.…