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In today’s society an increasing amount of information is being created and stored digitally, which offers many great benefits. But there are also risks:…

What do librarians do when they retire? There must be nearly as many answers for this as there are librarians, but Lenny Rhine’s retirement…

During recent years, growth in the purchasing of foreign-language journals by the Chinese
has created much interest in the market by overseas scholarly publishers. This…

Much of the early talk about open-access publishing has focused on biomedical science. This area receives considerable public funding and generates research results that…

Open access ‘opens up a new path of communication between researchers and citizens that will contribute to relocating science and scholarship within our societies,’…

UK funders of biomedical and health research increasingly require that peer-reviewed articles arising from research they fund become freely available to maximise their impact.…

For many years, publishers, scientists, academics, librarians, funders and government officials have debated the value of greater public access to the results of scientific…

It’s the middle of the night. A researcher can’t sleep for thinking about her research. She is presenting her latest findings to her colleagues…

At the beginning of February 2007, RSC Publishing launched the first phase of its Project Prospect and, in doing so, became the first primary…