Is there a library-sized hole in the internet?
You rose to prominence as an internet thought leader, with pioneering texts such as The Cluetrain Manifesto and Everything is Miscellaneous. What led you…
Interviews
Necessity, the mother of invention for aggregators
What have been the key developments around ebook access during the last 12 months? Paulson: As ebooks have become more widely adopted and the…
Bridging the research knowledge divide
What challenges face researchers in the developing world? Researchers are as exposed as any other section of society to the inequalities of economic and…
Balancing money and mission
What trends have you observed during your time in publishing? After nearly 16 years at Oxford University Press – and six years with Elsevier…
Making the connections between funder and research
How does CHORUS work? Researchers, research administrators, librarians and others have a lot on their plates and are going to be asked to do…
Boosting transparency
What trends have you seen with experimental data?One of the largest changes, which is still underway, is the movement towards data entry at the…
Changing approaches
What trends do you see? One of the biggest shifts is the role of monographs. In the 80s and 90s there was a shift…
Making the most of metadata
What have you been proudest of with CrossRef?I’ve probably been proudest of CrossRef’s impact on scholarly communication generally. We have built up lots of…
Opportunities for innovation
How did BioMed Central begin?Having worked for Current Science Group (now Science Navigation Group) to develop the BioMedNet community website for biologists and medical…
Patent power
How did PatBase come about?My husband and I started Minesoft 17 years ago and, until 2003, we were a distributor for Questel. PatBase began…
A long-term perspective
How have things changed?I started in 1968 so I have obviously seen a lot of changes. Back then we were typesetting in hot metal.…
A changing environment
What key trends do you see?Over the past four to five years funding bodies have often looked at research spend, and how they can…