Legal documents enable scientific discovery
‘A patent is a legal document but in a scientist’s hands it has to become a scientific document,’ observed Jorge Manrique, VP of sales…
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Books make their mark in search-engine family
A few years ago everyone knew what you meant when you were using the verb ‘to Google’. It meant using a popular indexing search…
E-books are here to stay
E-books are back and this time, they are here to stay. The Online Information conference in London in December was told that, after a…
Task force takes on data preservation challenge
The information age has created a global networked society in which access to digital information has revolutionised science, education, commerce, government, and other aspects…
Users don’t expect social networking from libraries
As the internet’s readers rapidly become its authors, a new study from OCLC reveals that just 13 per cent of the public feels it…
Publisher partnership ready to go for gold
Sage has become the first major journal publisher to break ranks and announce the creation of a range of new open-access (OA) electronic titles…
Personalisation and collaboration
Web 2.0 has become the latest buzzword in scholarly publishing. But the concepts behind it have not emerged overnight. Nature Publishing Group (NPG), for…
Web evolution changes information access
‘Libraries can’t manage knowledge but they can manage the context that users access it,’ said Stephen Abram, vice-president of innovation of Sirsi Dynix and…
New resources help engineers
Over the past year a range of developments have been made that can help researchers discover more about the latest research in their fi…
Usage insight guides subscription decisions
It goes without saying that, when a library spends a lot of money on information services, it wants to be sure the resources are…
Helping RSS help researchers
Scholarly journal publishing is a major business. It is worth more than $5 billion per year and around 2,000 STM publishers are estimated to…
Biomedical research resources get personal
If you’re a life scientist, medical researcher or biologist, what is your most precious commodity? Time. As Sue Thorn, executive director of the Society…