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Twenty years ago two forward-thinking organisations in Germany and America realised that the future of scientific and technical research was online. They also anticipated…

The future of STM research depends on access to the discoveries of the past, and any scientist will agree that the archives of Nature…

For information managers, clinicians, researchers and academic professionals, the proliferation of information has made it increasingly challenging to find the right resources, when they…

The 21st century is bringing rapid changes to STM journal publishing, particularly as online becomes the primary medium for journal distribution. Although disciplines differ…

Imagine yourself with an information problem. Not a lack of information, but too much information. How much information is too much? And, how can…

The organisational merger between the two scientific publishing companies Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) that was announced in February 2004 has now largely…

The move to online content in the 21st century has unleashed new challenges in the STM industry, effectively destabilising the entire information supply chain.…

Rarely has a proposal triggered such a flurry of initiatives, statements, petitions, reports, reactions and inquiries as the concept of open access publishing. Although…

A new bill from the UK government promises to pave the way for digital data to be preserved in legal deposits in the six…

Text mining is a way of discovering new information by applying techniques from natural language processing, data mining, and information retrieval. Its uses include…

The secret of running a marathon, according to Jerry Kline, is to pace yourself so that you can still be going many miles down…

For more than five years, libraries all over the world have been taking advantage of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. Current market research shows that…