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In Spring 2009, a tense debate took place at the University of Maryland, USA that painfully highlighted the chasm between science, technical and medical…

E-books are helping turn students into researchers. The convenience of online access allows users to view e-books off campus and throughout the day and…

Olaf Ernst, president, e-product management and innovation, SpringerThe biggest development in e-books that publishers are seeing is in mobile devices. E-book readers are getting…

For the three centuries up until the Second World War journals were published largely by national societies, with university presses and academic publishing houses…

Last November Lille, in the heart of Europe, hosted the first international conference on usage-related approaches to academic digital libraries.The first message of the…

‘Some studies have found that references on Wikipedia are as good as those that users get from libraries. What does that say about our…

The future for electronic books is bright, with spending in libraries expected to double within the next three years, Maxim van Gisbergen, product manager…

Every day, 8,000 physicists in over 170 locations start work on their individual computers in universities in 34 different countries. Yet they all have…

Almost as soon as the term ‘Web 2.0’ was coined, the web community split into two factions. There were those who embraced the term…

Little did the poor dodo know, as the first Europeans dropped anchor off the shores of Mauritius, that its days were seriously numbered. It…

More than a century ago, the English philosopher Herbert Spencer said that ‘science is organised knowledge.’ The concept resonated at the time, but little…