Helping the unaffiliated researcher
How did DeepDyve come about?Our founders were originally bio-scientists. Their careers began in academic institutions where they had very good access. When they left…
Interviews
Connecting digital heritage
How are things going?Things are going tremendously well. We’ve had a huge, positive response and huge traffic. It is one of the most exciting…
A new approach to peer review
What are your thoughts on the peer-review system?There is a saying that conservative people are fond of: if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.…
Researching India
What is the Indian research landscape like?India has over one billion people but the researcher population is around a tenth that of the USA.…
Open access could prevent rejection of good science
What trends have you seen?We are seeing huge growth in our author base from emerging countries, not just in quantity but also in quality.…
User needs are crucial
What has changed?What the Press is trying to do is the same as it has always done: to advance knowledge and research around the…
Reaching for the stars
Why did you join eLife?eLife was a very interesting opportunity. I’ve always worked on products for libraries or end users. This gives an insight…
The need for semantics
What is the role of semantics?I think we need to disambiguate "semantic technologies" and the "semantic web." The semantic web is a vision, championed…
Digital preservation matters
Vicky Reich (left); Randy Kiefer (right)Why do preservation?RK: From the days of cave paintings the format of content has kept changing. Digital is…
Integrating business models
Why have you bought Versita?De Gruyter covers different business models and we try to be business-model agnostic. For the past nine months or so…
A semantic approach
What does TEMIS do? TEMIS aims to help publishers and large corporations deal with large volumes of information by semantically enriching their textual content.…
A decade of innovation
'The ongoing march of the online movement means that XML is about to be as pervasive as the PC.' Vanessa Spedding, Research Information, Autumn…