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‘We are at a major point of change in the wider information economy within which library systems form part of a larger whole,’ observed…

If you have struggled to use the EndNote reference management software in the past, it is worth giving it a second chance. The new…

Although the internet gives scientists instant access to a wealth of academic journals, recent findings from the University of Chicago, in the USA, indicate…

There is pretty much universal agreement that strict copyright laws with vigorous enforcement are necessary in order to have a viable, sustainable industry to…

A tropical island, complete with palm trees, beaches and sunshine is not your typical venue for science conferences. Only in Second Life, the virtual…

Searching for information in an online collection of unstructured documents is extremely valuable. Examples of such document collections are patent documents, news articles, legal…

‘It’s about as exciting as a safe deposit box in a bank but it’s as secure as one too,’ joked Greg Zick as he…

The potential loss of e-journals is unacceptable, according to a recent study of library directors carried out by Portico and Ithaka.Their survey of 1,371…

A generation ago students learned from text books – sometimes written by their lecturers. An elite few got to travel to the dusty archives…

Hunting down relevant information from the different acronyms, formulae and multiple names that represent chemical compounds is hard enough for an untrained human, let…

In January 2006 the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) became one of the first Spanish signatories of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to…