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There is plenty of enthusiasm for search engines like Google from researchers and the general public alike. Google and Google Scholar are well-known for…

How ironic it is that, to get a routemap to the future of ebooks, it may be best to consult an atlas.Elsevier’s BrainNavigator is…

Last year, research that JISC and the British Library commissioned overturned the assumption that the ‘Google Generation’ – made up of people born after…

The continually evolving information landscape has presented an embarrassment of riches over the last few decades – and the scientific community has clearly benefited.…

Society publishers are subject to many of the same pressures as other publishers – falling library budgets, emerging technologies and competition for authors, to…

Nicola Gulley is editorial director of IOP PublishingThe IOP Beijing office opened in July 2000. Our chief representative and editor-in-chief, Mingfang Lu, has been…

The UK’s National Heart Forum (NHF) is an alliance of over 60 national organisations working to reduce the risk of coronary disease and related…

What do you do with a million books? Or a million newspaper pages? Or a million art images? Scholars now have access to huge…

In 2008, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) surveyed its members to find out what they thought about the long-term preservation…

The library and information science community have been quick to recognise the potential of social network sites to engage with both customers and other…

Over the past 10 to 15 years there has been a dramatic rise in the number of papers coming out of China. According to…