Web 2.0 fails to excite today’s researchers
Web 2.0 technologies have fundamentally changed the way that many people share personal information. It might be an exaggeration to say that everyone is…
Web 2.0 technologies have fundamentally changed the way that many people share personal information. It might be an exaggeration to say that everyone is…
In the past months much has been written about the hyped Web 2.0. Evangelists have talked about applying this to almost everything published or…
Electronic publishing started off in a very democratic spirit and promised that anyone could become a publisher on the web. Things changed very quickly…
The very different research fields of biomedicine and physics have some curious similarities. Both have long-established and well-used preprint repositories. Both see great support…
A new interface is now available for Copac, a freely-available, merged online library catalogue that allows you to easily search the UK’s national library…
Online archives are the stuff of librarians' dreams. They don’t need shelf space, handling gloves or air conditioned vaults; they can be searched quickly…
In early June, one of President Obama’s pre-election promises was delivered with the launch of Data.gov, a portal for US Federal Government data. It’s…
A legacy is a valuable thing, but it also comes with plenty of responsibility. It must be passed on in a condition that allows…
The European scientific, technical, and medical (STM) information market has been one of the most buoyant information market segments over the last decade –…
The internet has spawned access to unprecedented levels of information. For chemists, the increasing number of online chemistry-related resources available provides a valuable path…
Users often turn to search engines rather than their libraries’ OPACs as they can be a simpler way to find relevant information. In 2006…
Every type of cultural institution has its own international umbrella organisation. This so-called NGO (non governmental organisation) provides an international platform to further the…