Features

Should we be prepared to face a future without digital curation?

1 May 2004

It's 2020. A postgraduate student has chosen 'Icons and Irony in late 20th Century Science' as the topic for her thesis. She expects to…

January/ February 2004

Powering the world’s knowledge

1 February 2004

In his book, Britain in 2010: The New Business Landscape¹, Richard Scase makes a remark which, I think, captures one of the key characteristics…

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January/ February 2004

Profile: Sally Morris ‘A one-person dynamo’

1 February 2004

It is sometimes said that the big commercial publishing companies have too much power in the information industry. But the smaller companies and the…

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Winter 2003

The Virtual Library: Out with print, in with the PC

1 November 2003

When GlaxoWellcome merged with SmithKline Beecham in late December 2000, it created a global pharmaceutical giant with seven per cent of the world's drug…

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Winter 2003

Disseminating STM Information: Extended expectations need extended services

1 November 2003

More than a century ago, scientific publishers invented a system for disseminating scientific knowledge that made them a profit while meeting their customers' needs…

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Spring 2003

Data Preservation: Great data, but will it last?

1 April 2003

The process of saving or storing a document, some data, or a pre-print paper on a computer is a simple and automatic act that…

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Spring 2003

Linking evolved: The future of online research

1 April 2003

From its origins in the late 1980s, the essence of the World Wide Web has been its ability to link together seemingly disparate sources…