Robotics speed up book digitisation
As I write this – and probably as you read it – six sophisticated machines and their operators are hard at work in a…
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Web 2.0 ideas enrich Europe’s digital heritage
The heritage organisations of Europe have digitised tens of millions of significant pictures, films, books, photographs, sounds, newspapers, manuscripts and archival records in recent…
Journal unites research articles with raw data
When Hindawi and SAGE formed a partnership at the end of last year both publishers were venturing into new territory. For Egypt-based Hindawi it…
Riding the e-collections wave
The revolution towards widespread e-book publishing has become a reality and many academic publishers now provide e-books and e-reference collections.With that in mind, the…
Copyright should be the same for digital media, say researchers
UK researchers want to be able to copy parts of electronic materials for non-commercial research in the same way that they can with print,…
Taking the first steps towards institutional open access
The open-access (OA) question in scientific publishing is attracting increasing attention among the many different groups involved in the scholarly communication system.The level of…
Patent information providers take on Asian challenge
It is a familiar story in the business press: the emerging presence of Chinese, Korean and other Asia Pacific companies cannot be ignored.For potential…
German libraries bring disciplines together
The online world has come a long way in terms of searching for information. It is sometimes easy to forget that, having found a…
Addressing changing demands on academic publishers
When academic publishers first began to make their content available electronically, most tackled the different types of content as separate products. This meant many…
Connecting researchers boosts collective intelligence
The increased availability of electronic scientific literature is resulting in a ‘data smog’. Scientists now read 25 per cent more articles from almost twice…
Academics back peer review but want improvements
Peer review received almost universal backing in a recent international survey of 3,040 academics. The study, carried out by Mark Ware Consulting on behalf…
Teamwork saves review time in neuroscience
Submitting a research paper to a journal can be a long process. And if, after receiving reviews, the paper is rejected by one journal,…