Marketing can help publishers weather the recession
The year 2009 is proving to be pretty grim. Library budgets – already under considerable pressure – are being cut further as the credit…
Features
Study reveals e-textbook successes
E-textbooks seem to be a hit with students and university staff, according to data collected so far from across the UK in JISC’s e-Book…
Partners in open access
Just over two years ago, in the heart of the Nordic countryside, three women embarked on a new venture: to launch a journal publisher…
Listening to researchers is crucial to information planning
GE Healthcare doesn’t have a library, it has a Knowledge Centre. Low-level seats, coffee tables and wireless internet access make it the kind of…
Helping to do right with rights
Why have over 800 publishers – including the Times Online, the Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Penguin, and many other household names in 43…
Open-source search tool helps clippings database
The database and technology arm of the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) oversees access to a vast database of clippings from over 140 national and…
Publishers relax author rights agreements
The attitudes of scholarly publishers to rights ownership and permissions have changed in the digital world, according to presentations at the London Book Fair.…
Proof in preservation
The shift to online journals is accelerating, with obvious benefits for both libraries and users. Most readers of academic research journals these days find…
Digitisation helps future proof Dutch literature
How did this digitisation initiative start?DBNL was created by the Society of Dutch Literature with a vision to make Dutch literary works available electronically…
Redefining e-books
Martin Richardson, managing director of the UK academic and journals divisions of Oxford University PressOUP is a leader in the digitisation of books to…
Scientists lead the push for open data sharing
Scientists are notorious for keeping their work under lock and key. An enormous body of scientific knowledge remains unavailable to those who need it…
Reference tool helps organise scholarly resources
One of the joys of online searching is accidentally discovering something really useful. While looking for something on a specific topic you will come…