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What has been AIP’s experience of open access? Our mission is to diffuse physics knowledge but we also have to be able to stay…

Pat Sommers is the CEO of SirsiDynix. Modern libraries rely heavily on software. In the early days they wrote their own, but it has…

The original view of a disruptive technology, as coined at Harvard Business School, was that it spelt doom to big, mature companies. Because they…

Over the summer of 2006, an eclectic mix of librarians, programmers, and interested individuals with web skills applied their talents to the task of…

Figuring out what users want and how they behave are some of the biggest challenges for publishers and for the companies that they outsource…

There's been no hotter topic in 2006 than Web 2.0. Much has been made of its community engagement: putting research back into the hands…

In recent years the profile of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has been raised significantly by the energetic work of…

Since 2002, the UK's JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) has shown a strong commitment to an emerging trend in research institutions and digital repositories.…

Sales in the online scientific, technical and medical (STM) information segment increased by 15 per cent at current prices in 2005 to reach €1.2bn.…

The Norwegian word 'dugnad’ roughly translates as 'a group of people who work for the common good or for a common cause.’ According to…

Students who were born in the digital age expect and prefer all of their information in electronic form, according to reports from large research…

We all know how much difference computers have made to the way that research is carried out. Now, instead of just trawling through volumes…