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Please explain what you understand by ‘semantic enrichment’ Babis Marmanis, executive vice president and CTO at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC): Word representation is central…

As the open access landscape grows in volume and complexity, Rebecca Pool asks whether calls for caution should be heard Earlier this year, a…

Please tell us what you understand is meant by ‘discovery’ Anne-Marie Viola, discovery usage manager, SAGE: Discovery at SAGE is defined as the easiest…

When the late Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute of Scientific Information (now Clarivate Analytics), introduced the Journal Impact Factor, he probably didn’t realise…

In February, Arnaud Nourry, chief executive of France-based publisher, Hachette, labelled e-books ‘stupid’. In the furore that followed, indignant internet pundits called Nourry ignorant,…

Organised by Research Information magazine, in partnership with London Info International (LII), this one-day event addressed some of the most important issues in scholarly…

Peer review forms the crux of good science, yet few would argue it works well. Ensuring research quality, tracking down competent reviewers and avoiding…

Often described as tomorrow’s filters for today, altmetrics emerged at the turn of this decade to make sense of scholarly impact in a burgeoning…

More than two decades ago, client server computing toppled mainframe computing from its lofty pedestal. But today, service-oriented architectures and browser-based interfaces, deployed through…

A little over three years ago, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Library set out to explore what the ‘Academic Book…