Bentham announces OA growth strategy
Bentham Science plans to launch over 300 open-access journals during 2007 with the first 100 journals being launched by May 2007. The journals, collectively…
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Patents provide important research information
Intellectual property rights (IPR) have been developed over hundreds of years to provide a means for recognising and rewarding human creativity. The instruments of…
Final versions carry little weight with librarians
In the future, librarians may be happy to point their researchers towards the author versions of papers in repositories instead of to the publishers’…
Researchers reject need for resource discovery training
Search and discovery are integral parts of the research process. New findings describing the information-seeking habits of researchers in the higher-education sector show that…
From printer to publisher
Ten years ago the imprint of Maney did not exist. The company did but its publishing activities were hidden behind the imprints of the…
Simplicity is the way forward
The role of subscription agents is constantly being redefined as the nature of the information that they negotiate access to changes, and as the…
Working with change
The e-content environment has changed rapidly in recent years. Just a few years ago, most publishers did not offer access to digital versions of…
Shaking up the library
Librarians have good grounds for being seriously worried,’ David Nicholas told delegates at last year’s Online Information event. ‘There is a massive demand for…
Making sense of usage statistics
One of the buzz words floating around our industry over the past year or so has been SUSHI. This may evoke delicious images of…
Collecting research output
The positive stance that many research councils take on author and institution self-archiving is a familiar topic. But this goes beyond passive support of…
Systems must change to help knowledge management
Information and knowledge are often cited as the new global currency. However, there is considerable confusion in the library market about the term 'knowledge…
German scientists aggregate worldwide informatics knowledge
Informatics is playing an increasingly important role in scientific research. It helps to understand, organise and mine information and underpins most technological breakthroughs. But,…