Financial history provides modern insight
Economies around the world have been going through testing times and the effects on house prices, banking deals and corporate finances are being seen…
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Sciyo introduces usage-based author royalties
Digital technologies are changing the way scientific research is disseminated and creating new possibilities for tracking its use and evaluating its quality. Apart from…
Service enables applications to search journals
What is the new service?Nature.com OpenSearch is a sister service to the regular nature.com search service, which allows a user to query nature.com and…
Industry tackles polarisation in access debate
Discussions about open access (OA) to scholarly information tend to be characterised by disagreement. Subscription publishers might argue against OA being a viable business…
Data-sharing culture has changed
‘Scientists would rather share their toothbrush than their data!’ Few academics today would agree with Carole Goble’s purposeful misquote from 2006 – especially as…
Untangling digital rights
‘The anti-copyright case is very seductive and populist. The pro-copyright message is much more difficult to make,’ observed Mark Bide. He was speaking in…
Programming skills could transform librarians’ roles
Recent ICT innovations have led to the reappraisal of our understanding of library and information services. The traditional vision of the library as a…
Conference brings OA community together
In September, 2009 the First Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) was held in Lund, Sweden. This event was co-hosted by the Lund…
We need to convince the taxpayer
Ask scientists who they most need to impress, and only a few will come up with this answer: the taxpayer.If scientists can’t make the…
Information integration may not be enough
It is no secret that academic libraries are struggling with finding ways to bring the Google generation of students to discover the value of…
Good data about content reduces user frustration
Knowledge bases are the resources within the OpenURL process that know where content is, how to link to it and, crucially, which version of…
The slow rise of e-books
What is an e-book? The question sounds uncomplicated enough but it has, as yet, no straightforward answer. E-books have slowly evolved over the past…