Features
Tino Hannay & Hilary Spencer of Nature Publishing Group explain why this publishing company has launched a free preprint service for biologists, chemists and earth scientists
The EMBASE bibliographic database from Elsevier is one of the latest products to have its whole archive digitised. Magdaleine Margaritis, marketing manager of the company's Pharma Development Group, tells Sian Harris why
John Murphy profiles Elsevier's free science search engine, Scirus
Isidro Aguillo explains how university websites can be compared and why this gives meaningful insight into the institutions research output
The high-energy physics community wants all of its published research to be freely available to everybody. Jens Vigen reports on how a radical new initiative hopes to achieve this
Archiving presentations from meetings can open up access to cutting-edge research and educational resources, writes Joshua Illig
Tensions between advocates and opponents of open access increase with the launch of a new partnership that is aimed at protecting the integrity of scientific research, reports Nadya Anscombe
Siân Harris investigates a project to bring down the barriers to electronic publishing for small, not-for-profit publishers.
The European STM online information market has seen its fifth successive year of double-digit growth, writes industry analyst David Mort
In the last issue of Research Information we looked at the processes of ingesting, managing and storing digital information to help organisations preserve data. The next challenges to consider are access, preservation planning and administration, according to Tessella's Robert Sharpe.
John Murphy takes a look at Ovid Technologies and the role its platform plays in medical research
Court cases are now used to resolve disputes over the use of content. Siân Harris checks out a project that hopes to solve this problem.